My Internet of Things currently is set up on my wireless guest network as per Steve Gibson 's re...

[G+_Rud Dog]

My Internet of Things currently is set up on my wireless guest network as per Steve Gibson's recommendation( great idea).

 

To take the security one step further, the wireless guest network is isolated from my Home wireless Network using "disabling Intranet setting on my AC-RT87u. My assumption here is the guest network will not talk to my home lan but will be allowed access to the Internet? Even when I say it not sure it is fully understood how that works.

With this ready need to know if it is possible to connect via my Home Lan to my guest network using port forwarding or triggering. Have a rudimentary understanding of both but would like some help setting it up if it can indeed be setup up?

[G+_Ben Reese]

That's one of the problems I see with putting IoT devices on a guest AP. You lose the local network access to them and quite possibly put them somewhere that they might be more susceptible to drive-by attacks.

 

I'm not sure if you'd be able to port forward to a guest network. If probably depends on the router. Can different devices on the guest network talk to each other? Is the guest network in a different IP range from your main network?

[G+_Rud Dog]

The router is AC-RT87u and as it stands now if I need to communicate with my IOTs simply go into my router settings and enable Access Intranet. This allows full access to my hearts content. When done just disable Access Intranet. 

From my basic knowledge it is understood the guest network is exactly like the Private network my Home LAN resides on with the additional setting of isolation between networks. So guessing all the IOTs can talk to one another.

As for how they communicate with me one of my IOT has "ash" reduced Unix and can email me depending on which item sees a problem or needs my attention. 

It is a small price to pay(turning off/on Intranet) but would like to learn a bit more about my router functions and what this forwarding/triggering can do as it applies to my project.