Future Consideration Feature Request - Guest Network separate DHCP/DNS settings
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Hi @TP_LINK,
I've had rock solid performance so far, and do like the Deco Labs options (although the Wifi Interference check results show 'low' then say underneath that there is significant interference), I do, however, have a feature request to put forward.
My use case:
- 3 x Deco M5s in Router mode
- Several wired and many wireless devices on the main network
- Several wireless devices on the guest network (my work devices)
- DHCP is handled by the Deco, and DNS is served by another server on the main network.
If I set the DNS to only have the DNS server, both the main and guest network use these settings. This causes the guest network to fail as it is segregated from the main network where the DNS server resides.
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David-TP wrote
@BenVA thank you for your patience.
No, there hasn't been any update about this feature yet and I am afraid it is on a very lower priority.
best regards.
Not the answer I was hoping for, but at least now it's clear that TP-Link's not waiting for user input.
I guess we won't be seeing this feature to be added anytime soon.
Thanks for the clear answer though.
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@BenVA Ah, it takes some time to read through the post. Ads blocking via customized DNS is not something I am capable of.
I think if they could adjust their logic and did not let guest network consider the DNS server as one of the host client, like they did to the LAN IP, things would be much easier.
Anyway this is what I think, not sure if it is realistic.
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Yes, I agree with the other posters here. The use case scenarios have been clearly described, as have the shortcomings in the current Guest network settings. Very sad and disappointing to see no progress on this request: like others, the reality is that I won't buy TP-Link kit in the future because of this.
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@stephen55 I think I'm with you here. I've bought my last TP-Link Router. I'd much rather find something that is more configurable for how I want to run my home network. Although, I just got some new decos, I may just start my search again.
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bigmik1021 wrote
I would very much like this feature for the pi-hole use case. Took me a while to figure out this was the issue setting up a new device on the guest network.
Even though this request is in the "top 3" that @David-TP recently posted, for some reason they're not considering this to be a good feature to be added.
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Hi all, please leave a reply in the "Top 3 topic (https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/539546)" to suggest the Guest Network DNS issue to be included on the roadmap, as pointed out bij @BenVA
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@richpriest I would very much appreciate this feature as I also use a Pi-hole.
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Since the guest network is already separated from the host network by VLAN, the request for separate DHCP settings under guest has not been approved.
Please tell me this is a joke.
In all seriousness, how are you going to assign different DNS servers to the two networks without having different DHCP scopes? I'm not going to make any assumptions about the internal deco network stack, but if something is going to be inspecting the DHCP request to determine what DNS information to respond with, clearly that thing can also select from two unqiue subnets for an IP to hand out.
And, since everything needs a use-case to justify we can say, oh... a device someone want's to multihome on both networks? Like say... a media server on their LAN that also offers up content on the guest VLAN they use for IOT devices? Becuase that won't work if both networks use the same subnet. How in the world would the device create a routing table?
Or, how about just plain sanity? No network admin in their right mind wants to see the same subnet spanning two different virtual network segments.
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