Tuesday, January 19, 2021

WAN Uplinks that terminate directly in the the firewall?

Hi All,

As someone who is pretty new in the networking world I have a quick question regarding wan uplinks. What is the best practice for connecting these to your equipment in the datacenter? Currently, We have them connected directly to our firewalls but I've been told by certain vendors and even read that we should really be running these through our switches first then to the Firewall.

The concern I have about moving the wan uplinks to the switch is mixing that 'dirty' wan traffic with all of our other l2 traffic. Is there a way to isolate these uplinks from all other l2 traffic on the Cisco Nexus paltform? Would a vrf be appropriate for this?

Thanks,



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