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		jessaustin on Feb 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have ... That's a good idea, but that logic has to be on the switch. Unless one has a very simple network, the firewall is somewhere else.

mikeash on Feb 25, 2016 | [–]

WiFi networks already have to have substantial smarts in the router. Adding firewall logic to that wouldn't take much. On simple networks it's typically the same device already.

antsar on Feb 25, 2016 | [–]

VLANs can be used to achieve this goal with a non-trivial network too.

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