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Cisco Meraki’s unique auto provisioning site-to-site VPN connects branches securely, without tedious manual VPN configuration. Leveraging the power of the cloud, MX Security Appliances configure, monitor, and maintain your VPN so you don't have to.
Current situation: I connect to Meraki VPN on Mac and then use terminal to launch the following so I can be split-tunneled but still hit my corporate LAN (thankfully, I have need to route to one subnet) sudo route add -net 10.10.10.0 -netmask 255.255.255.0 -interface ppp0 However, this method kills the route when the VPN is disconnected. On the MX appliance, go to Event Log and select 'VPN Client Connected' and 'VPN Client Disconnected' from the 'Event Types Include' field and search with the desired time frame. You could also set up an alert to email you when a VPN connection comes up or goes down. If you have a lot of VPN users, those emails might just be an annoyance.
Cisco Meraki’s unique auto provisioning site-to-site VPN connects branches securely with complete simplicity. Using IPsec over any wide area network, the MX links your branches to headquarters as well as to one another as if connected with a virtual Ethernet cable. Customers accessing or moving services to the Amazon Web Services cloud can use Auto VPN to connect directly to a virtual MX inside their Virtual Public Cloud.
MX Security Appliances automatically configure VPN parameters needed to establish and maintain VPN sessions. A unique cloud-enabled hole-punching and discovery mechanism enables automatic interconnection of VPN peers and routes across the WAN, and keeps them updated in dynamic IP environments. Security associations and phases, authentication, key exchanges, and security policies are all handled automatically by MX VPN peers. Site-to-site connectivity is established through a single click in the Cisco Meraki dashboard. Intuitive tools built in to the Cisco Meraki dashboard give administrators a real-time view of VPN site connectivity and health. Round trip time latency between peers and availability status information automatically keep track of all the VPN peers in the network.
Flexible tunneling, topology, and security policies
Configurations for split-tunneling and full-tunneling back to a concentrator at headquarters are fully supported and configured in a single click. Hub-and-spoke and full mesh VPN topologies give deployment flexibility, and a built-in site-to-site firewall enables custom traffic and security policies that govern the entire VPN network.
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Cisco does a great job with their documentation but unfortunately they didn’t do so well with explaining how to configure their VPN connection for medium to large scale companies. Their documentation only explains how to configure the connection manually, so I decided to use my Powershell skills to write up something really quick. Luckily for us, this task is extremely simple with Powershell.
The following script will automatically configure your Meraki VPN connection on Windows 10:
This script can be deployed using GPO, your existing system management system or even added to your images with MDT or SCCM.
Connect To Meraki Vpn Client
I hope this helps someone out!