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Hi Everyone,

This seems so silly, and I can’t believe I can’t figure this out myself. I am setting up a Meraki MX75 (first time touching a Meraki Firewall), and I am running into an issue setting up external access. I need to allow remote vendor support access using a remote access service. I want to just add an allow rule for the service’s IP addresses to the local LAN on a couple ports and a couple internal destination IP addresses. I feel like this should be as basic and simple as it gets.

I have been doing some reading, and I am not finding any helpful information. Supposedly, the Meraki “Inbound” rules are only for IPv6 (but you can use IPv4 from “Outbound” rules??). One article said to set up NAT rules, and another said to use port forwarding rules, but neither option seems right to me.

So I am at a loss; I feel like this should be easy. Any suggestions would be great.

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Seeing that you have to be paying Meraki to even use it I’m going to suggest you just reach out to their technical support, I know that’s not the quick answer but it will provide you with expert (ok maybe just good) support. You pay for it, make them work for it.

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Yep; you are right. It just seemed like a silly thing to open a Support Ticket over. I think I figured it out though; I need to use Port forwarding and NAT rules. I’m giving that a shot now.

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It looks like setting up Port Forwarding and/or NAT rules is the way to build “Allow” rules:

Looks like I need to get with the times and stop thinking in terms of old-school ACLs and zone based firewalls!