Block traffic on a specific WAN

guitb
Getting noticed

Block traffic on a specific WAN

Is there a way to block specific traffic to no use WAN 2 on the MX? Even if WAN 1 becomes unavailable, the traffic should be blocked.

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alemabrahao
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

No, it's not, if you block a destination it is independent of which WAN you are using.

I am not a Cisco Meraki employee. My suggestions are based on documentation of Meraki best practices and day-to-day experience.

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Blue_Bird
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jimmyt234
Head in the Cloud

There is a rumoured secret back-end feature that Meraki support can turn on that converts the Cellular failover rules to work as a WAN 2 firewall policy. Worth reaching out to support and getting clarification.

 

Re: Cellular Failover Ruleset Behavior - The Meraki Community

Solved: Heavily restricting allowed traffic on WAN2? - The Meraki Community

bperezgo
Meraki Employee
Meraki Employee

Hi @guitb

 

I agree with @jimmyt234, please open a case with Support to request your network(s)/org is added a checkbox on the Firewall page to enable/disable cellular failover rules. You may reference this KB in the case description so we're aware of exactly what you're looking for! 

 

The feature allows the Cellular Failover Rules to be used for when the non-primary uplink is activated. For example, if WAN 1 is primary and fails over to WAN 2 and the MX has this feature applied, the cellular failover rules will apply to traffic going over WAN 2 instead of the default Outbound rules. This is useful for customers that have a cellular to Ethernet bridge or a metered connection on their non-primary uplink.

 

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