Alien device on my network

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Niels Rietkerk

• April 05, 2022 13:56
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My company might be willing to provide me a computer or laptop to work from home. Additionally, possibly I have guests sometimes who would like to use internet. I have a Blue Plus.

I'm wondering if there is a way to set up my network so that such a guest device on my network could reach the internet, but could not see other devices on my network?

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  ColoRock

  • April 05, 2022 14:39

  Pretty sure you can’t do that with Blue Plus. You need VLAN/network segmentation (available on Purple and Gold).

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  Niels Rietkerk

  • April 05, 2022 14:54

  Don't they physically separate? I was hoping there might be a software way.

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  Firewalla

  • April 05, 2022 16:26

  Blue Plus doesn't understand segments. You can use the Purple + VLAN, or Gold + (port or VLAN segmentation)

   

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  Niels Rietkerk

  • April 05, 2022 16:41

  Ok, that's a bit disappointing. For my understanding, what's different about the others that allows them to?

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  Rich T.

  • April 05, 2022 16:57

  Not related to the Firewalla, but depending on your router, you can still segment the work laptop and guests via a VLAN. If you are connecting wirelessly (or wired) the router would need to support it, and as mentioned the Blue+ doesn't understand segments, so you'd be isolating them from the Blue+ as well.

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  ColoRock

  • April 06, 2022 01:25

  I think VLAN/segmentation capabilities are only available via routers and switches. The more advanced Gold and Purple have “router mode” (the recommended mode) where the others like Blue aren’t designed to perform the routing or switching in a network.

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  Niels Rietkerk

  • April 07, 2022 05:10

  Is the hardware not capable of it in some way, or is it just kept out of the software?

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  Rich T.

  • April 07, 2022 12:52

  The device that hands out IP addresses (your router) has to create the VLANs. The software has the capability as it's the same software on purple and gold, but the device needs to be set up as the router to use it. 

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