Thanks for feeling my pain. My plan is to try to configure a port, which I don't know how to do, on our juniper to allow direct access to the internet in a secure way. Once it connects it should be plug and play. I talked more with those who are managing the device to get a better understanding of what they needed and what we were configured to do which is different from other location where they plugged the device into the ISP's router which gave them direct access to the internet. Hopefully I can find a juniper mx5 guru that knows how to do the port config I am talking about ... View more

Yes already contacting them, but they were here a month ago and tried the plug and play and couldn't figure it out. your suggestion have been extremely helpful. As you said I need to know how they installed them at other locations and see if that can be done at our site ... View more

The vlan we have it on where it is able to get to the cloud service and the light is white, if I move it to the vlan its supposed to be in can it get an new IP in that vlan or does it need to be reset? Does it need to be plugged into more than one port or is being plugged into the vlan it will live it enough to get it to pass traffic through the vpn? I have no idea what this vpn is even used for ... View more

The original VPN they are replacing was point to point and they are using the cloud service and it is set to DHCP to automatically get an IP address. We have it plugged into one of our vlans right now, the light is white and I have confirmed through the firewall that it has access to the cloud service but I don't know if there is a tunnel formed, I would assume I could see that if I had dashboard access ... View more

I am the one that manages the network but I am very new and they just came here one day and expected to plug it into the VPN device that had before and thought it would work, But the VPN they are replacing is a point to point VPN and not a cloud service device. So would I be able to just plug it into the vlan it is intended for? It would have internet access I did not know that the MX had lan ports but I will try that ... View more

VPN only intended for one vlan only.  What if I just plug it into the vlan it was intended for, it would have access to the internet from there, do I really need to put it at the perimeter? ... View more

I do not have access because the main office is suppose to be putting it in and manage it.  I don't remember saying I have two different firewalls. Currently it is on our internal network connected to the internet but now I have to connect it to the vlan that it will be servicing and again I have never worked with meraki, it was just brought to me to replace a vpn that is currently in place and on the Juniper MX5, they just wanted to plug and play but it did not work that way, I guess I could connect it to the internal vlan its supposed to be in and be done with it. It is a meraki VPN through their cloud services. Again I don't know much about it, because I was just asked to make it fit in our network, but I don't manage it By the way great questions, its helping me make a better decision ... View more

I do not have access to the dashboard I will need to contact someone who does. So is it an acceptable practice to connect the device to the juniper mx5 and then connect it to an internal network vlan?  ... View more