Devices shown incorrectly - the never ending story

[KarstenI]

Hi all,

I know this is an old thing and was discussed multiple times. But I don't get the actual state ... Can someone direct me?

I have multiple networks where clients are shown like this in the dashboard:

But no, they are not connected with a LAG to the core; the LAG goes to another Meraki stack.

What causes this and what was the solution, if any?

Have a great day, Karsten

[RaphaelL · Accepted solution]

Do you have client sampling enabled on uplinks ?

[JacekJ]

Exactly, @KarstenI here you have everything explained:

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

the new, default setting is way better, no client jumping between interfaces.

[KarstenI]

Yes, I disabled the sampling, and now the clients show up correctly. I didn't remember this feature ... Now I have to find out why on some networks it is enabled and on some it is disabled.

[JacekJ]

Because its a fairly new thing.

Old networks will have the "Sample all interfaces" option chosen, only new networks will have the default option picked 🙂

[RaphaelL]

Not only that , but the default behavior for templates and standalone networks is different.

That means you have to check every single network and templates to make sure that it is disabled. This used to be a backend option 🙂