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IP Obfuscation for Guest VLAN
Hi Experts - need your advice on following situation.
We need to create a GUEST VLAN in our Meraki Setup, and my project manager requesting if we can obfuscate the public IP for Guest users.
Is there a possibility with a setup where we have only Meraki MS Switch and Meraki WAPs .. uplink firewall is not from meraki.
Please let me know.
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There's really no way to do this with the Meraki gear.
Users will always be able to lookup their public IP address by going to a page like Instant IP Address Lookup (whatismyipaddress.com)
The only options that come to mind are:
- Tunnel all traffic to a SaaS gateway/VPN (Cisco Umbrella, ZScaler, Cloudflare etc.) so that their public IP is what will show, not your one.
- ISP configured CG-NAT, in which your outbound IP address will actually be a private IP NAT'd to the ISP's public IP.
That being said, I don't think either of these options are justifiable for that specific purpose alone.
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What do you mean with obfuscation? Could you please explain it better?
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There's really no way to do this with the Meraki gear.
Users will always be able to lookup their public IP address by going to a page like Instant IP Address Lookup (whatismyipaddress.com)
The only options that come to mind are:
- Tunnel all traffic to a SaaS gateway/VPN (Cisco Umbrella, ZScaler, Cloudflare etc.) so that their public IP is what will show, not your one.
- ISP configured CG-NAT, in which your outbound IP address will actually be a private IP NAT'd to the ISP's public IP.
That being said, I don't think either of these options are justifiable for that specific purpose alone.
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Thanks Brash - You are correct, I have done Obfuscation using the mentioned options. Was just wondering if Meraki has any magical feature. Thanks so much for the time and updating the answer. Much Appreciated.
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Why does a project manager have any say at all.😁 Foe what reason would you want to hide their egress point to the Internet? If the circuit is also used for your corporate /business traffic then you are far better served installing a local Internet egress circuit on an MX or some other gateway that serves GUESTS only, IMO
