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Posted: 9/3/2024 2:03:39 PM EDT
Link Posted: 9/3/2024 2:21:50 PM EDT
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The correct way to do a guest network is an access point on a separate VLAN segregated from the main network
Link Posted: 9/3/2024 2:27:38 PM EDT
[#2]
+1 for vlan or some sort of segregation from the rest of the network.  You don't want a guest popping on and pooping all up on your samba shares or printing 8700 dickpics off the printer or chromecasting goatse videos to the waiting room TV.

If you halfass it and just have 2 routers on the same network, with the same or with different SSID and passwords, they will still be the same network where they can all talk to each other.  Ideally, the vlan for the guests runs in hotel mode, where the guests are isolated from each other.

Also remember to only have 1 DHCP server running.  You dont want 2 different routers on the same network competing to hand out IP addresses.
Link Posted: 9/3/2024 2:34:59 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/3/2024 2:36:41 PM EDT
[#4]
Link Posted: 9/3/2024 7:00:42 PM EDT
[#5]
Just vlan that shit.
Link Posted: 9/4/2024 3:03:13 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By SpanishInquisition:
Just vlan that shit.
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This, if you have managed switches.  Well, you need at least one managed switch…
Link Posted: 9/4/2024 7:08:28 PM EDT
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