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m_ls
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March 27, 2024
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Allow Whatsapp Voice and Text only

  • March 27, 2024
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Hi everyone, 

 

Can you guide me how can I allow Whatsapp voice and text only and deny video calls and file transfers? 

 

The firewalls we are using are on the version 7.2.6, Fortigate 100F. 

 

Thanks in advance for any guidelines. 

 

Regards 

Mihail

Best answer by AEK

If this is the only app you want to allow the I guess you also need to allow some other mandatory services like DNS. Probably other services are needed by WhatsApp but I can't help further.

You can test and see if it works, you may need to enable traffic logs as first step so you see what is blocked, in case some mandatory services are blocked you can see them in the logs and allow them until WhatsApp works fine.

2 replies

AEK
SuperUser
SuperUser
March 27, 2024

Hi Mihail

Here are the existing WhatsApp signature. I don't think we can deny video calls without affecting other features.

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AEK
m_ls
m_lsAuthor
New Member
March 27, 2024

so basically if I allow whatsapp voice, video will be implicitly allowed. got it. Now, how a policy rule should look like? I have done it in this way but I am now sure if is the correct way 

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AEK
SuperUser
SuperUser
March 27, 2024

Be careful, this app ctrl profile will deny all applications but WhatsApp.

What are you trying to do exactly?

AEK
m_ls
m_lsAuthor
New Member
March 27, 2024

what has to do your reply with my question?