MX67 Convert Port 2 from Lan to Wan

[GarageLand42]

I am not on site and will be doing this remotely.  We are looking to migrate away from 1 ISP currently connected to WAN 1, to a different ISP on Wan 2.

If I convert port 2 from Lan to Wan , will this impact my Wan Port 1?

My Wan port 1 is currently working and configured to a non-meraki VPN  Peer

Can I then configure the New Wan 2, and make that my primary uplink port.?   

[alemabrahao]

Yes, you can do this remotely without any problem, I've done it several times.

[GIdenJoe]

As long as your device comes online on the regular internet connection it will get the dashboard config to set the second port to WAN2.
However make sure the people onsite don't use that port as LAN port 😜

[cmr]

When converting port 2 on an MX67 we have, it rebooted each time the port was converted from WAN to LAN or LAN to WAN.  This was on firmware18.107.5.  

[alemabrahao]

I have never seen it before.

[JSooty]

Org of MX67's running 18.211.2 too having noticeable disruption when converting port2 WAN to LAN or vice versa

Annoying as we are middle of a project to add a backup WAN connection to each site and inadvertently needing to knock site offline to even add a secondary uplink

[alemabrahao]

I suggest you open a support case in this case.

[cmr]

It is a known issue and not something that's likely to change, apologies on Meraki's behalf.

[van604]

@cmr thanks for this information, i took it for granted that you can do it live with no reboot and just tested it myself to confirm that a reboot happens.  it so rare that i have to do this remotely and never had to add a second wan after the fact.  good learning momment.

[JSooty]

We're feeding into our deployment standard now not to use the 'convert portX LAN to WAN' as a switchport / uplink for switch unless absolutely necessary, and running the step to convert port X from LAN to WAN at the sites initial install, even if there is no requirement for secondary WAN connectivity initially, so as if the requirement does arise in the future we can do it with 0 downtime.