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    • Deleted74295D
      Deleted74295 Banned @JaredBusch
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      @JaredBusch said

      It is not as easy as that to make it a secure guest network.

      Yes but it depends what you mean by "secure"

      Not having the ability for the client machines to talk to each other without layer-3 switches needed is a big boon.

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      • Mike DavisM
        Mike Davis
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        My understanding of how Ubiquiti handles guest mode is that it drops packets destined for internal networks. What I don't know is like I think some others were getting at - what if the user tries to go to another local subnet outside the subnet their on. I guess I'll just keep the VLAN thing.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @Mike Davis
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          @Mike-Davis said in ubnt guest wireless or separate VLAN?:

          My understanding of how Ubiquiti handles guest mode is that it drops packets destined for internal networks. What I don't know is like I think some others were getting at - what if the user tries to go to another local subnet outside the subnet their on. I guess I'll just keep the VLAN thing.

          My understanding is that it totally drops those packets too. In some ways, that makes it more secure than a VLAN because just hijacking a physical switch is not enough to grab the packets.

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