Inconsistant Guest Network 1 Access from Main Network

[jplw]

I have 2 identical TP-Link Tapo C120 cameras connected to my Guest Network. They both have 192.168.101.xxx IP addresses. They are also both configured to stream via ONVIF (hence rtsp) to my AgentDVR. One works perfectlly, streaming via rtsp after connecting to http://192.168.101.xxx:2020/onvif/device_service to get the rtsp URLs. The other times out and does not provide the rtsp URLs. If I connect them to the main network with 192.168.1.xxx IP addresses, both work fine, but I do not want to do this for security reasons. Does anybody have any idea why one would work on the guest network and the other not? I am running the latest stock firmware on my RT-AX3000 router with an RT-AX82U node. Both work on the Guest Network if connected the the Node, but not if connected to the Router. Of course, the Guest network is configured to not allow access to the main network.

 

[OzarkEdge]

Does anybody have any idea why one would work on the guest network and the other not?

Perhaps shutting everything down to reboot the network and the client devices might clear an odd glitch somewhere(?) Boot up router and then node first, followed by the clients.

OE

 

[jplw]

Perhaps shutting everything down to reboot the network and the client devices might clear an odd glitch somewhere(?) Boot up router and then node first, followed by the clients.

OE

Thank you for the advice. I had already done a "System Reboot". Based on your advice I removed a camera from the system, unplugged the node, rebooted the Router through the app, plugged in the node. I then added the camera to the Guest network. It is closer to the Router, so it connected there. It would not stream. I bound it to the node and it woulds then stream.

Barring any other thoughts, my next step will be to factory rsent the node and router and rreconfigure from scratch.

 

[jplw]

Perhaps shutting everything down to reboot the network and the client devices might clear an odd glitch somewhere(?) Boot up router and then node first, followed by the clients.

OE

I did a hard factory reset on the router and recfigured it from scratch. I have not even connected therenode yet. I connected 2 cameras to Guest Network 1. They will not stream. Do you think this is intentional and that streaming when connected to a node is a bug? Even though they are on the Guest network with intranet acess disabled, I thought that meant they could not initiate access to the intranet, but could respond when queried from the intranet--which is what I am trying to do here.

 

[OzarkEdge]

I did a hard factory reset on the router and recfigured it from scratch. I have not even connected therenode yet. I connected 2 cameras to Guest Network 1. They will not stream. Do you think this is intentional and that streaming when connected to a node is a bug? Even though they are on the Guest network with intranet acess disabled, I thought that meant they could not initiate access to the intranet, but could respond when queried from the intranet--which is what I am trying to do here.

Intranet access disabled means clients on the Guest WLAN can only access each other and the WAN/Internet. They cannot be accessed by clients not on the same Guest WLAN.

AP Isolated means WLAN clients can only access the WAN/Internet... they are isolated from each other and any other local clients.

(I hope I got that right.)

Side note: When ASUS introduced AiMesh, they played around with the Guest1 WLANs to get them to sync to AiMesh nodes. Conventional wisdom with 3.0.0.4 firmware when using a standalone router (no nodes) is to skip using Guest1 WLANs and instead use the Guest2,3 WLANs to get away from some suspected oddities introduced into the Guest1 WLAN code.

OE