Hi Community,
Currently we are planning to connect a neigbour building to our facility.
The idea is to use MR access points for this and use one as the gateway AP and one as the repeater (neigbour building) and then configure it that the repeater will provide the network via its RJ45 port to a MS switch in the neigbour building.
All of this is described here: Extending the LAN with a Wireless Mesh Link - Cisco Meraki Documentation
But now we also want to connect some MR Access Points to the MS switch and in the KB its stating that this is not supported. Does anybody have an idea why?
I mean what is the difference here from the radio bridge perspective that the client is wired and directly connected to the MS and if the client is wireless coming through a MR? In the end this is Layer 2 communication and the radio bridge will never know that its a wireless client.
The mentioned solution would be to go with Layer 3 switches in the neigbour building and create new IP subnets there. I do not want to do this because I do not want to have a routing switch. This does not fit to our design, also there are no Meraki 8 Port switches with Layer 3 functionality and I have only space and need for 8 Port switches.
Can anybody please help here? Do you already had this challenge?
Regards
Daniel