BSSID Question

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BrianChernish
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BSSID Question

We are seeing something strange when viewing "Interfering APs" in Air Marshal.

 

We have captured the BSSID Detail for each of our MR76 APs and know the BSSIDs for 2.4 and 5 ghz radios. The interface is however reporting a BSSID which is unknown to us and the MAC is the same except for the first octet.

bssid screen shot.png

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have no "Hidden SSIDs" in this environment.

 

The environment consists of a single MR76 connected to our wired network and a couple of "meshed" APs.

 

Can anyone confirm what the additional BSSIDs might be?

 

Thanks,

Brian

 

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Ryan_Miles
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It's a SSID used for supporting/connecting your mesh APs

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Ryan_Miles
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It's a SSID used for supporting/connecting your mesh APs

Ryan

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RaphaelL
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Kind of a big deal

Hi ,

 

As stated by rymiles this is the SSID used for Mesh.

 

You can disable it ( it is a Network-Wide setting ) : 

Meraki allows the ability to disable mesh on the Meraki Access Points. The toggle is a network-wide setting and is configured under Network-wide > Configure > General > Device configuration

Disabling mesh will stop the APs from broadcasting the Mesh SSID to save airtime. 

 

https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/WiFi_Basics_and_Best_Practices/Wireless_Mesh_Networking

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