Sunday, August 20, 2017

Enable guest network in unify ap without vlan

Within the Unifi controller software, go to Settings -> Wireless Networks.  Create the SSID you want to be the guest network, leave security open, and check the box labeled Guest Policy.  Don't setup any VLAN configuration because you do not need it.
Once you have done that, go to Settings -> Guest Control.  You do not need to use the guest portal option.  In the Access Control area, add the subnets you do not want guest wifi clients touching in the Restricted Subnets area.  
Once you have completed these steps, you have just created a guest wifi that users can connect to without the need to authenticate, and Unifi has restricted clients on that wifi network from being able to touch your production network...all without VLANs.
And the clients on the guest network would get an ip from your DHCP server as you would expect, and you can then filter the web traffic by content as you desire.
Guestwifi_preview

And one other thing, you need to allow dhcp Ip address on guest wifi so that guest client can get ip from dhcp, within Settings -> Guest Control you can add your entire subnet (i.e. 192.168.0.0/24) under Restricted Subnets and then add an allowed subnet for just your dhcp server (i.e. 192.168.1.5/32).


Result: - User can get Ip from dhcp but will not be able to ping any devices into the network.