Hello All,
I come from a cisco IOS background. On IOS you'd have 4 Switchport options
dynamic desirable
dynamic auto
access
trunk
If you set up a port as a trunk port and plugged a client that does not support dot1q tags you wouldn't get any traffic going through that port. Further more you could control wether or not the port autonegotiated to a Trunk if it saw a DTP packet come through.
Fast forward to Meraki and You've only got 2 options, Trunk and Access. There are some bnetwork devices that are capable of reading Frames with intact VLAN tags. On IOS I would just put it into Trunk mode and I'd know for a fact if that device can read VLAN tags or not because it would work or it wouldn't.
I can't do that on Meraki becasue I have no way of knowing if a Trunk port autonegotiated to Access mode (the VLAN tags are stripped on egress) or if it's an ACTUAL Trunk port (VLAN tags are not stripped on egress).
Does Access port and Trunk port just fundimentally mean different things in the MEraki world? Access means only a single VLAN alowed while Trunk just means multiple VLANs are allowed?
Rant: Has anyone here been through a CCNA or any kind of Cisco training? Why can't meraki (or do they already?) offer a similar comprehensive training where you are taken down to the packet level and shown exactly how meraki habdles traffic and best practices. The meraki training I've gotten is just GUI click this to do this and that. No explination of what the router or switch is actually doing under the hood.