Clients on Uplinks

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Dan_Nicolet
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Clients on Uplinks

Concerned!

 

I currently have a mixed environment of Cisco and Meraki switches on the network. All access layer switches connect to a core catalyst 4510. The access layer consisted of mostly catalyst 4506s'. I recently replaced three Cisco 4506's with Meraki MS350 stacks. I am aware I will have some issues....

 

https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Monitoring_and_Reporting/Last_Seen_Switch_Port_of_Client_Keeps_C...

 

However, even devices connected directly to Meraki switches are showing up on other uplinks of different stacks? For example, If I click on a switch port, then click on the client it is connected to, the client occasionally shows up on an uplink of different stack.

 

I am upgrading to all Meraki in the next year replacing the 4510 with two MS425s, and hoping this will clear up. I do feel I currently have an issue though. The switches are all using the core 4510 as RSTP ROOT Priority 1, so I do not think it is a Spanning tree problem. 

 

Any help would be appreciated,

 

Thanks

 

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PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

If the client sends a broadcast packet then that will go over every uplink, and show this behaviour.

 

The problem will reduce as you get more and more Meraki swtches.

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PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

If the client sends a broadcast packet then that will go over every uplink, and show this behaviour.

 

The problem will reduce as you get more and more Meraki swtches.

That is what I was hoping!

Thank you for the quick reply!

Dan

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