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Mobility Controllers as a External Firewall?

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  • 1.  Mobility Controllers as a External Firewall?

    Posted Jul 12, 2016 07:41 AM

    I have a customer that is insisting that they want to make their Aruba Mobility Controllers as their main buisness firewall.  Obviously it lacks all the Anti-Virus/IDS of a normal firewall, but they say that doesn't effect their decision.  I know technicially I can make it work for them but I was wondering has anybody every tried this before?  Any shortcomings or problems that you guys have ran into that I can let the customer know about ahead of time?  Is there a limitiation on the amount of inbound NAT's the controller can handle?

     

    Also if anybody has any success stories I would welcome those as well.



  • 2.  RE: Mobility Controllers as a External Firewall?

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted Jul 12, 2016 11:23 AM
    Many customers do it. Should work fine


  • 3.  RE: Mobility Controllers as a External Firewall?

    Posted Sep 15, 2016 04:37 PM

    Hi!

     

    Good Idea...

     

    Is there a step-by-step 'How-To' with a description how this can be realized?

    How can I configure a Port as the "WAN Port" and activate NAT?

     

    Thank you in advance for your hints...

     

    Manfred