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tehmaco | 9 years ago

My first thought would be to set the default gateway to 127.0.0.1. It should mean that they can't route packets to anything outside their LAN?

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jessaustin|9 years ago

I meant that the light bulb could tell the router "I'm IoT so assume I'm pretty dumb", to which information the router could respond in any number of ways. I don't think your setting would have the effect we want, however. The light bulbs have to talk to whatever is supposed to control them, so they have to be able to see the LAN.

tehmaco|9 years ago

The gateway is needed to route outside of the local subnet, so if the bulb is 192.168.1.17, it can talk to anything in 192.168.1.0/24 (presuming a standard home user setup), but anything else would get 'no route to host' errors on initial connection attempts.

You'd need to configure the DHCP to hand out these kinds of leases by MAC address though, as I can't see vendors agreeing on a way to easily restrict the devices net access! :-/