Kevin_Z wrote

@Don1220 

 

Just out of curiosity, is there a specific reason why you want to isolate those IoT devices from the main network?

@Kevin_Z 

Sure.  Same reason people set up guest networks.  My main network is limited to my computers and NAS, and I've taken the appropriate steps to try and prevent viruses and such from getting at those devices.

IOT devices are completely untrustworthy. Many if not most phone home and who knows to where, and what data they're trying to collect from your network. IOT devices and their cloud services are hacked on a regular basis. It's one thing if someone hacks into a camera or doorbell for example; they're not going to see anything terribly interesting.  It's quite another for such a device to have network access to my computers and NAS.  I don't have the time to babysit and block suspicious connections or DNS requests, or set up complex firewall rules to keep them isolated (which you can't even do with this router!), so a separate network keeps them isolated from the main network, and from each other. 

Unfortunately, I have to use the guest network for this purpose.  With DD-WRT and OpenWRT you can create as many SSIDs and networks as you want, but there's no DD-WRT or OpenWRT compatible WiFi 6 routers at present.

This is not an uncommon setup, and a savvy vendor would add a the ability to create an "Iot" network without having to sacrifice the guest network.  Would be a good marketing feature, I'd think.  Virtually every wifi router can create a guest network; it should be a fairly trivial programming task to allow the creation of a third.

Thanks for taking this request seriously!

I came across this post looking for the same solution and signed up for an account just to comment.  =)

I would love to have the ability to split up my network and dedicate a VLAN to guest/IoT devices, and manually add routes between them.  The three use cases I have right now are:

1.  I would like to keep my work laptop on my guest network and still have RDP access from my main machine.

2.  I would like to keep IoT devices on my guest network and be able to cast from my computer or phone without joining to the guest network first.

3.  I would like to put my Oculus VR on my guest network and still have access to PCVR gaming.

Thanks again!