Guest wi-fi loopback to allow VPN usage

Cranium

I have a public and corporate wi-fi defined through VLANS. The guest wi-fi only allows internet access and no access to internal systems (public interface). These both work very good.

We have remote salespeople that bring their personal devices into the office and want to connect to the internal network resources. At this point, I only allow them to connect to the public wi-fi. Is there a way to route public wi-fi users to be able to log in through Sonicwall VPN in order to get to internal systems? I know I can do a loopback to internal systems but this would essentially bypass the security of isolating internal systems through policy.

Saravanan

Hi @CRANIUM,

Thank you for visiting SonicWall Community.

Yes, we can achieve allowing VPN access for the wireless users using Global VPN Client. Please follow the steps as per below KB article. A small change in the prescribed article, you will be following the instructions on the WLAN GroupVPN policy instead WAN GroupVPN policy.

https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/how-can-i-configure-wan-groupvpn-for-connecting-with-global-vpn-client/170505850768290/

Please feel free to post me for any questions/clarifications.