On Mar 8, 2019, at 12:22 PM, John Robinson <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

> If you are concerned about the thermostats, you can absolutely segment your 
> network and add a VLAN for the thermostats that only allows them access to 
> the internet with a 1 way trust that will allow you access to the thermostats 
> but won’t allow traffic to be initiated from the thermostats into the rest of 
> your network.

He’s suggesting a variation on what I’m doing. You can put the thermostats on a 
“guest” network with no open incoming ports so they can call home, but nobody 
can call them. Mine isn’t quite that strict. For example, I’m reminded some of 
my son’s gaming ports are still open, even though he doesn’t live here any 
more. (Gotta fix that one of these days.)

I have my visitor network set up so traffic can’t pass from the visitor network 
to the home network. A good router will let you do this within its routing 
table.

L^2

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Lee Larson
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‌The story so far: In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a 
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