Underlay Routing

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Santhosh29
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Underlay Routing

Meraki Dashboard behind the scenes ,totally underlay routing based or Is there any overlay routing exists to bring up the dashboard?

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rhbirkelund
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I think there are some concepts regarding Meraki you'd might need to research.

 

The Meraki Dashboard is not some system that is hosted locally on the Meraki devices themselves. The Meraki Dashboard is hosted centrally in the "The Cloud", and is available at https://dashboard.meraki.com.

 

When you buy your first Meraki product you browse to the Meraki Dashboard, where you create an account, and claim your Meraki Device by serial and a License by serial. Often times both Hardware and license is shipped togoether, bundled in a Meraki Order No. Typically, that number starts with 5S, nowadays.

 

After claiming your devices and adding them to a Meraki Network, you are more or less ready to go. What's next is to ensure that your Meraki device can contact the Meraki Cloud Registry, by any means possible using the internet. If you have an internet connection, you can connect your Meraki device to that, and it will attempt to contact Meraki Cloud by itself.

 

You don't need to know anything about how it connects to the Meraki Cloud Registry. In terms of basic configuration, you don't necessarily need to do any; as long as the Meraki Device can achieve an IP address through DHCP and there is a internet connection.

 

It is imperative, that Meraki has internet connectivity. Otherwise, you Meraki Device won't work. This is also one of the reasons that Meraki is considered Cloud-based and Cloud-managed networking. I'd suggest perhaps you watch this videon on YouTube.

LinkedIn ::: https://blog.rhbirkelund.dk/

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alemabrahao
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Can you explain with more details?

I am not a Cisco Meraki employee. My suggestions are based on documentation of Meraki best practices and day-to-day experience.

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alemabrahao
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Are you talking about MPLS?

I am not a Cisco Meraki employee. My suggestions are based on documentation of Meraki best practices and day-to-day experience.

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Yes , like BGP or MPLS or any fabric protocol OMP. Which source helps to connect from customer location to Meraki cloud? 

KarstenI
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The only underlay that is of relevance is the connection from the Meraki MX to the ISP. And that is done completely static. The overlay is proprietary and not really documented as in the traditionally Cisco SD-WAN (Viptella).

So there's an overlay concept but not mentioned .Is that correct?

KarstenI
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It is definitely mentioned. But there is not as much documentation as with Viptella SD-WAN. It's meant to be magic. Well, very good working magic. If you want to learn more about AutoVPN, these are some resources:

https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/2018/06/all-about-autovpn/

https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Site-to-site_VPN/Meraki_Auto_VPN_-_Configuration_and_Troubleshoo...

https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Deployment_Guides/VPN_Concentrator_Deployment_Guide

 

rhbirkelund
Kind of a big deal

I think there are some concepts regarding Meraki you'd might need to research.

 

The Meraki Dashboard is not some system that is hosted locally on the Meraki devices themselves. The Meraki Dashboard is hosted centrally in the "The Cloud", and is available at https://dashboard.meraki.com.

 

When you buy your first Meraki product you browse to the Meraki Dashboard, where you create an account, and claim your Meraki Device by serial and a License by serial. Often times both Hardware and license is shipped togoether, bundled in a Meraki Order No. Typically, that number starts with 5S, nowadays.

 

After claiming your devices and adding them to a Meraki Network, you are more or less ready to go. What's next is to ensure that your Meraki device can contact the Meraki Cloud Registry, by any means possible using the internet. If you have an internet connection, you can connect your Meraki device to that, and it will attempt to contact Meraki Cloud by itself.

 

You don't need to know anything about how it connects to the Meraki Cloud Registry. In terms of basic configuration, you don't necessarily need to do any; as long as the Meraki Device can achieve an IP address through DHCP and there is a internet connection.

 

It is imperative, that Meraki has internet connectivity. Otherwise, you Meraki Device won't work. This is also one of the reasons that Meraki is considered Cloud-based and Cloud-managed networking. I'd suggest perhaps you watch this videon on YouTube.

LinkedIn ::: https://blog.rhbirkelund.dk/

Like what you see? - Give a Kudo ## Did it answer your question? - Mark it as a Solution 🙂

All code examples are provided as is. Responsibility for Code execution lies solely your own.
Maumarti
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Meraki SD-WAN relies on an underlay network (whatever technology) that has ultimate reach to the internet-meraki cloud.

The mechanism that builds the overlay, and its automated routing domain, is auto VPN. It is publicly documented in order to facilitate understanding of the mechanics and troubleshooting.

https://meraki.cisco.com/product-collateral/auto-vpn-whitepaper/?file

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