L7 filtering?

Question

How can I block certain sites/types of traffic on specific WLAN? I would like to block FaceBook and YouTube on the student WLAN, but not the staff WLAN

unknown · Answer

Greg,

There is no where in the AP or controller which allows you to filter traffic based on domain name or URL. You need to have a Webfiltering service like websense or try the cloud based service from open DNS. If you are not looking for granularity then openDNS works. Give it a shot and its easy to set it up --> http://www.opendns.com/enterprise-sec...

victor_tort · Answer

Hello Greg,

If you have a URL filtering in your network, you can configure a WLAN with an specific VLAN with communication to this URL filtering server

A proxy might help under the same circumtances

Victor,