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Aaron_Wilson
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Member since Oct 10, 2017
03-29-2022
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03-22-2021
06:51 PM
You need to define "Meraki SD-WAN". If you are asking if a Cisco router can connect to a Meraki MX as a downstream layer 3 device, sure thing. If you are asking if a Cisco router can participate in the Meraki AutoVPN mesh as an active hub, then no. You can use various layer 2/3 switches and routers with Meraki equipment, but the AutoVPN feature is a "Meraki only" thing.
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03-06-2021
10:05 AM
1 Kudo
This has been in the known bugs for a while. Maybe it's this? Known issues After making some configuration changes on MX84 appliances, a brief period of packet loss may occur. This will affect all MX84 appliances on all MX firmware versions.
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03-06-2021
10:01 AM
1 Kudo
It has its pros and cons. But yea, if cloud is out of the question then you can't use Meraki. On the flip side, if a customer wanted no possible way for locally managed device even if factory reset, Meraki perfectly fits that need.
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03-06-2021
09:13 AM
5 Kudos
You can't. Meraki is a cloud managed solution, period.
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02-19-2021
03:29 AM
What is the Tx power of the APs? If they are failing to roam maybe it's because they see too strong of a signal from the distant AP.
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01-27-2021
06:30 PM
1 Kudo
Seems odd to have the two MXs at each ingress point, and not where things converge in an MDF, etc, where all the other distribution/switching gear is.
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01-19-2021
02:59 AM
A little confused. They already bought a 3 year renewal? Or you meant they were buying 3 year licenses from the start?
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12-24-2020
05:52 AM
If you open an AP and mouse over the red line, what is the description for the red line?
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12-23-2020
11:51 AM
Yea, same question as Philip. We have Cisco APs, local/centralized controllers, but guess SSID tunnels back to guest wlc in a dmz. Works fine and it doesnt matter if it's a MPLS site or a Meraki based site, centralized wlc or flexconnect. Guest SSID is all fine and dandy. We did have one little issue at one site, but it was a mtu issue when we tried to use a GRE tunnel over the Meraki connection - haven't messed with gre since. Otherwise, zero issues.
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12-22-2020
09:31 AM
Z3 and MX wireless options are fairly limited when comparing to the MR APs. As others said, it doesn't have all these options. If you need anything beyond basic SSID/wireless features you will want to go the traditional AP route (MR).
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12-21-2020
05:29 PM
1 Kudo
The number to contact Meraki support is under the help page when logged into your org. Did you ask the person who sold this if it was removed from their network/org? Though, typically you receive an error saying it was already claimed. Meraki support can tell you more.
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12-21-2020
03:12 AM
1 Kudo
Yea, based on this design it appears it appears of the primary goes offline then everything fails, including the secondary. Actually, the secondary in this config actually does nothing. Unless there is more to this design you are not showing. Such as vlan3 being served by some other links to the internet.
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12-19-2020
07:34 PM
Does the soft client work different than say a Z3? I have never had issues with multiple Z3/MX at home for testing behind a single NAT router. But I have never tested the soft client.
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12-18-2020
02:35 PM
When they cold reboot how long do you have them wait before testing? Have you let it sit for 30min to see what would happen? Repeat offenders, can you move them to 15.x beta?
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12-09-2020
03:21 AM
1 Kudo
Double edge sword. On one hand someone may want to see all addresses handed out via DHCP. On the other hand someone may want to see just the "regular" dhcp clients, not known clients which have static reservations. If it were me, I think I'd care about non-static only.
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12-08-2020
04:18 PM
2 Kudos
They should really drop the SD-WAN from the AutoVPN blurb as the "sd-wan" license is something entirely different.
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12-08-2020
09:10 AM
Same. "User" is contained in all user based networks, and the site code for company locations. VPN hubs have a different naming convention. Nicely groups things together, and the filter + naming standards make it super easy to find anything.
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12-07-2020
06:33 PM
2 Kudos
Don't think of network like "wan", think of it like physical location. If you had 20 physical locations would you want to look at a flat view where you couldn't differentiate which subnets went to which physical location? Of course not. Network is honestly a poor name. If you only have cameras is "network" a good name? Nope, "location" or "site" would be better. A location can have a MX, sketches, APs, cameras, etc.
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11-29-2020
12:56 PM
Are all of the Meraki switches non-blocking, or only certain ones?
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11-27-2020
07:05 AM
Since the Meraki's are going to separate switches I'd be worried about the trunk being lost and the Meraki's going dual active. While I cannot find my Meraki document I referenced years ago, Aaron's article still exists: https://www.willette.works/mx-warm-spare/ However, it does look like Meraki treats warm spare slightly different between NAT and concentrator modes: "In order to receive heartbeats in a one-armed concentrator configuration, both VPN concentrator MXs should have uplinks on the same subnet within the datacenter. For Routed mode configurations, both concentrators must be able to communicate using the LAN ports." If you make the directly connected ports a dedicated /30 subnet you shouldn't have to worry about loops or anything. I have mine setup this way....but I also run NAT mode 🙂
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11-26-2020
03:37 PM
Do any video guys care about configuring a network switch? Probably not, which is probably why Netgear and others are preferred. Also, this isn't an insult, as I am one of those "video guys". Been doing audio/video for just about 20 years, I just happen to also belong to our network team and cross pollinated to network. Heck, just the other day I had to spin up a Dante mic and DSP for some work stuff. I grabbed the smallest PoE layer 2 switch I had from the supply drawer (it was a Crestron switch). It powered the devices, passed the packets and the gear is none the wiser. Sure, I could have used one of the Meraki switches I had in the adjacent drawer, but I didn't want to deal with a switch that took longer than 5 seconds to boot...lol
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11-26-2020
03:18 PM
1 Kudo
I suspect they dont prefer Meraki for NDI because Meraki probably has little interest qualifying it. If you look at the list of certified switches from Audinate for Dante, it doesn't include Meraki. But they work just fine. While I have not done anything with NDI specifically (only Dante), if the core specs pan out you should be OK. Backplane (non-blocking) is probably the most critical.
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