Uplink traffic MX

TheAlchemist
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Uplink traffic MX

I see a lot of ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-region-compute.amazonaws.com  traffic on WAN ports pcap capture on MX appliances. Infact all Traffic on secondary WAN is from AWS. Any idea why this would be happening. I have no VPN tunnel setup with AWS or have any traffic coming from AWS instances.(pic attached)MX250-Traffic.png

 

 

 

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alemabrahao
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I think you should open a support case.

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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TheAlchemist
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I was wondering could get some advice from the forum on probably some AWS Direct Connect connection or if anyone has seen this before. I think if you don't have an answer it's better to keep shut than advising to open a support case.

BrandonS
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Is it terminating to anything on the LAN side? I notice a lot of hacking/scanning garbage from AWS in general so maybe just that? I would want to see a LAN side pcap to and from that AWS address to understand better. 

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Brash
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If I'm reading the pcap correctly, all of the packets are sourced from a known port and designed for an ephemeral port. That would typically indicate that something in your LAN side initiated the connection. 

As @BrandonS  suggested, a LAN side capture might yield done better information.

TheAlchemist
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LAN side did not show any AWS public ip.I am checking with AWS support and will update this thread.

PhilipDAth
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More than likely, Meraki is simply hosting part of its cloud infrastructure in Amazon AWS.

TheAlchemist
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Thanks for the info so far, I did check with Meraki Support and was told the public IP mentioned was not used by Meraki in AWS. Will check with AWS support.

TheAlchemist
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Checking with AWS it is identified that there are EC2 instances from some account which have theses ips.AWS cannot reveal the account holder or their location as per their policy. I have blocked the  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32 public ip in layer 7 rules (ip range section) but still see traffic visible on WAN internet pcap capture on Meraki Dashboard. How else could I block "Internet Protocol Version 4, Src: ec2-xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com from hitting our MX. We do not have advanced security features option.

cmr
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@TheAlchemist you cannot stop any internet traffic hitting your MX from the WAN side unless you use a cloud/ISP proxy or firewall.  Anyone in the world can try to send traffic to you.  Is your public IP one you have had for a while, or a new one?

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