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I think the real question is "what the hell IoT is doing on a globally-routable network?" Put it on an isolated VLAN with no Internet connectivity. Or a minimal
by drdaeman 2y ago
I think the real question is "what the hell IoT is doing on a globally-routable network?" Put it on an isolated VLAN with no Internet connectivity. Or a minimal connectivity only to what's absolutely necessary (e.g. I haven't seen IoT devices that need inbound connections, so drop any inbound packets unless conntrack says otherwise). There there will be probably no need for weird NAT66 contraptions or anything like that - just old good plain drop-by-default firewall.
But then, the article is about consumer tech, and most consumers aren't gonna set up any VLANs, firewalls or complex NAT systems, they don't know anything about those. They got one single flat WiFi network and that's about it. So, I guess, all the technical suggestions here are not really relevant.
- toast0 2y ago> Put it on an isolated VLAN with no Internet connectivity. It's hardly an Internet of Things if your Things aren't connected to the Internet :p
- chipdart 2y agoFrom the very first paragraph of Wikipedia's article on IoT: > "Internet of things" has been considered a misnomer because devices do not need to be connected to the public internet; they only need to be connected to a network[6] and be individually addressable.[7][8]