Different Firewall Rules per SSID on MX65W

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JoeM
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Different Firewall Rules per SSID on MX65W

Is it possible to setup different Layer 7 firewall rules depending on the SSID? I have 2 SSID's, one for Business and one for Guest. On my MX65W security appliance I would like to block different sites depending on the SSID you are connected to. I can do this on my AP's but not the security appliance.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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AlexP
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The way to do it is make sure your SSID's are segregated by VLAN, and then apply a group policy with the appropriate ruleset on the corresponding VLANs: https://documentation.meraki.com/MX-Z/Group_Policies_and_Blacklisting/Creating_and_Applying_Group_Po...

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LV_MW_MSP
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Hi Joe,

 

It is my understanding that there are limitations when only using the built-in WIFI on the MX firewalls. I just checked and don't see anyway to adjust layer 7 settings based on the source network, or SSID. I could be wrong, but it seems if you are using built-in WIFI on the MX your can't set different layer 7 rules per SSID.

AlexP
Meraki Employee
Meraki Employee

The way to do it is make sure your SSID's are segregated by VLAN, and then apply a group policy with the appropriate ruleset on the corresponding VLANs: https://documentation.meraki.com/MX-Z/Group_Policies_and_Blacklisting/Creating_and_Applying_Group_Po...

JoeM
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AlexP,

 

I tried this and it doesn't seem to be working for me. I have a template for all my sites. I added a group policy in the template. I then went under DHCP and added the group policy to the VLAN (1). When I look under the template and group policy it says the affecting clients is 0. Am I doing something wrong?

AlexP
Meraki Employee
Meraki Employee

Hey Joe,

 

That number only indicates how many clients have that policy directly applied to them, so if you apply it to a VLAN, it won't go up at all - this also applies to policies that are assigned via a RADIUS attribute or from Active Directory. Understandably a bit confusing if you're not familiar with it.

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