It's not easy to express that in meters. It depends on the antenna itself, the chosen energy-level and also the client. But 10 to 15 meters doesn't need any special antennas, there you are typically fine with the cheap omni-antennas. And with an MA-ANT-27 you typically go to over 100 meters, but only in the intended direction. ... View more

On the Meraki system, there is no feature like this. The SSID gets tunneled and sent to the appropriate VLAN. Do you need this feature because you need multiple subnets for the amount of IPs? Then the solution would be to rearrange one of the VLANs to a larger subnet. ... View more

@merda_sottile wrote: if the switch is down, this is no problem, but if both switches are up, i have usually the problem having a loop between mx <- switch1 - stackconnection - switch2 -> mx, and then the connection goes havoc. This typically happens when BPDUs from switch1 to the MX are not received back on switch2. One reason could be that you don't have a VLAN1 on the MX that can pass the BPDUs. ... View more

I think the feature you are looking for is "Site-to-site VPN Translation": https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Site-to-site_VPN/Using_Site-to-site_VPN_Translation   I sometimes implement it differently: I have unique IP networks on both sides for the VM infrastructure and the replication process. I use the same IP networks for the production VLANs but I don't route any traffic to the DR side. In case of DR, routing changes to DR and is disabled on HQ. Yes, it's a "poor mans DR", but it works quite well. ... View more

I am not aware of a document describing these migrations. Only the general Meraki documentation on Wireless which is quite good. The most important aspect is that, by default, there is no central switching with Meraki. If you want something similar, you need to place a Meraki MX into your network that can be used to tunnel an SSID to it. ... View more

First do a packet-capture on the port to the phone to see if the option is present in the DHCP-answer. If it is there, look for traffic from the phone to the server. ... View more

Do you want to add the new device for High-Availability on the network with the MX100? Then it will not work as both units have to be the same model. But if you want to add an additional network (like a new branch office) that connects via AutoVPN, then you can take any model you want. This is quite common. For example one customer has the MX250 on the headquarter and a mix of MX67/MX68/MX84 in the branches. ... View more

This is one of the strange behaviours of the MX. I have never seen any documentation on this, but based on observations I would describe it in the following way (to compare it to classical IOS routers): WAN1 has its own VRF with only a default route and it's own SLA-config to check internet-reachability WAN2 has its own VRF, similar to WAN1. All internal VLANs, static routes and also learned VPN-routes share a common VRF Based on the reachability-checks and the flow-preferences there is some route-leakage and inter-VRF NAT to direct the traffic to WAN1 or WAN2 Something like this could be the reason that the directly connected networks are not always reachable. ... View more

No, it doesn't have to as long you don't break STP. I would expect that most deployments have a trunk to the MX. Either because the core-routing is done on the MX for smaller deployments, or because multiple VLANs (Transfer to Core, Guests, internal DMZs) terminate on the MX. ... View more

@RumorConsumer wrote: I just bought some acoustic dampening pads and I’m going to take a run at creating an envelope that this MR 52 could go in and sit somewhere out of sight. My guess is it won’t require very much ventilation A lead housing has a great acoustic dampening ... 😉 ... View more

External antennas don't get you more clients connected. But with the right antenna you can make sure that the signal is only strong in a particular area of the room and not "everywhere" (depending on the size of the room), The AP would be an MR46E instead of the "normal" MR46. Did you go through the link for High-Density design that @ww provided? ... View more