@PhilipDAth wrote: I understand storage space is quite tight at the SFO office.  What about if you had all the swag manufactured and stored in Auckland, New Zealand?  Just think of all the International freight charges you could save on. To say nothing of shipping sooner than it would anywhere else in the world . . .  ... View more

Based on my own experience, a now dead generation of the kind of folk that ran the Empire used the word quedo or quedos (that is how I assumed it was spelled based on the pronunciation) to describe unspoken/unrecorded acknowledgement  of merit that, in extremis, could divert an otherwise deserved "rocket". Earning quedos was part of building a successful career.   I don't know at what point it entered US slang, or how. But if US-usage doesn't pre-date February 1943. I have a fairly good idea of the how/why. The term has been in pretty regular use in the UK military for a long time.   Originally, like so many other phrases, it could have its roots in India. In a world where people live in each other's pockets, quedos, like bitcoin was transferable and spendable in ways that are not always readily apparent.   So there is an interesting tradition as far as the modern kudos is concerned. ... View more

It would really help if the datasheets for all Meraki equipment gave environmental specifications, audible and power draw (PoE dependent in some cases).   If you look at how data centres have improved their energy efficiency, it is amazing. Mobiles and laptops manage their energy consumption better all the time. Network kit manufacturers appear not to be fully engaged in this issue.   ... View more

I find Chrome very unpredictable. Clearing out the cache usually fixes the problem. Whilst having a rant about it I discovered that not being able to log into one's MS account is not just down to Chrome, and I'm in good company with some very well known folk at Redmond. I keep FireFox for emergencies, fortunately my password manager works with multiple browsers and OS. ... View more

@PhilipDAth wrote: I moved mine to my Wife's side of the bed, so it is quieter now.     I hope you aren't expecting much for breakfast . . .  ... View more

I got mine working, but, it is presently on the naughty step because it hi-jacked my telephone calls, and I couldn't hear them, neither calling nor receiving. The volume control isn't sufficiently granular. I tried it as a bedside radio, same problem. The sound quality was better than I expected. Probably the app needs tweaking to allow for better control of volume and light levels. Its in the nearly good category and I can see where having a bag full of them could be very handy for kids (gnomes) parties.   I got it working with an app called Timebox ..... so who knows ... View more

@jhouts wrote: Agreed.  The phone carriers push out an update last week that broke our phone VPN's for all carriers except ATT.  This is directly impacting our business as our sales people can't VPN into our network to do their demos.  I am the | | close to telling Meraki to pick up their gear.  v6 is 15 years old and there is no excuse for lack of support. I can't find a flaw in your argument. The entire MX line probably needs replacement.   For our own distributed environment we are placing a BrandX gateway ahead of each MX because that gives us IPv6, hideous IoT and multicast coverage, that Meraki simply does not address.   If Meraki does come up with an MX alternative, I seriously hope that they adopt the principal of zonal security. ... View more

@CarolineS   The web cam cover will be saved for a new laptop, the present one has an excellent camera that has a bar each side of the lens which prevents attachment of the cover (perhaps there is what @PhilipDAth would recognise as a Nippon-Clipon, that I neglected to buy originally) ... View more

@CarolineS   Thanks, indeed for the swag, greatly appreciated.   Over the weekend I had to talk about the first data leak I had to deal with. We had let space in our building to one of the great Japanese trading houses. After work the Japanese manager would go through the bags of shredded cables in the basement car park and report back to Japan. Not only was our Japanese business not very profitable but we discovered that, as a trading house, they were speculating in the global commodities markets against us.   So we thew them out of our building (nobody bowed or scraped) and built our own internal messaging system across NZ and Australia to serve all the works and sales offices in those countries (really cool with split screens and dynamic function keys on the DEC VT100 asynch terminals we used), all linked by a fixed  line X.25 ring network with redundant links. At certain locations there were interfaces to transient X.25 connections that linked us to all the continents in the world (yes, once, by prior arrangement we did link to Scott Base and McMurdo in Antarctica to confirm the air shipment of their festive Christmas feast).   This was 38 years ago, I recall that the resident code on the servers that checked what was arriving to see if other processes had to do anything was only 91 bytes in size, before I padded it up to optimise performance (aligning on word boundaries is faster).   What I will keep under my new Meraki black cap are the thoughts that computing has gone a long way over those 38 years, not always in a forwards direction (fire up task manager and compare what you see with those 91 bytes).   So thanks Caroline. ... View more

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looks like you eliminated that possibility ... View more

And the DHCP lease duration  . . .    In case the system still "sees" a validated user returning ... View more

I recall that there is an option for the setting of the splash page frequency, so quite possibly if the IP lease is long enough, a specific, previously authorised user does not have to re-authenticate if the DHCP lease is still valid.   I do recall a situation at a village pub where the guest network handed out long IP leases and the regulars would keep the same IP pretty well indefinitely. Which made for some interesting analysis, particularly when it came to unnoticed coincidences. The management were usually weeks ahead of the village gossips. ... View more

@Adam   I'm totally agreeing with you. ... View more

@Adamwrote: . . .  so the serial/local old school way of implementing won't really work.    Nevertheless, the IT industry does this sort of thing all the time.   all those DBAs trying to manage all DBMS as if they were Oracle (which is a job creation scheme for DBAs) all those Netware trained engineers trying to design and manage networks the Novell way all those web developers who could understand RDBMS and reinvented the wheel, badly (NoSQL) all those flawed programming/scripting languages full of faults we knew were best avoided over 50 years ago All those Unix sys admins trying to manage AIX as if it were SunOS       ... View more

@JoshHwrote: @MerakiDavewrote: Give Meraki Support a call who should be able to see and correct any geo-enforcement issues based on your AP's config and order/purchase info. I had this issue, meraki support just told me to put it in its own network?! So I had some APs on the site in one network and one AP in its own separate network just to avoid this warning!    I'm not really happy with the solution there... Just try doing that in Israel - Meraki/Cisco shipments would be halted until the situation is properly resolved.   Meraki support need a pretty intensive briefing on this issue. ... View more

@CarolineS Thanks for that, now it is safe for me to explore my signature . .  ... View more

@MerakiDave   quote - Meraki devices have an electromechanical plunger deep in the SFP cage that, upon detection of another vendor's optics, will immediately and forcefully eject the SFP onto the floor, and Dashboard will generate a scolding email alert, and shorten your license by a month on subsequent attempts.    Whilst Dave is still on 1 April time - I did manage to find a rare photograph of the first prototype, scalding but no email alert, still gives one a jolt     SKU - SFP2018-04-01(late)       ... View more

@PhilipDAth   Thanks for the good wishes - the engineering I'm happy with, the gig-runners will screw it up, however. Never mind, once they have exhausted the (quite extraordinary) funding, we can get on with it. We can legally do 70 knots through the Thames Barrier on the way to London City Airport, land transport is lucky to do 18 kph.   ... View more

Congratulations to @PhilipDAth, @Adam and @MRCUR (and @CarolineS for discernment)   I doubt I'll be re-appearing for some time, it's conference season and because of the present international state of tension, I get to do my schtick, a lot. But that is great, and if I didn't do that, I wouldn't have the Meraki stack in the first place. Between gigs I will be working on a "Janet & John Guide" (ask an Australian) to setting up security for a small office ( it takes time because I am only theoretically a network engineer). But at the moment, what I really really want to get back to is the autonomous electric foiling boat project, which I do with a chum that has also been a member of the Yacht Research Society for almost sixty years (we were precocious SOBs).   Also, as I use NodeRed for the autonomous vehicle stuff, I'm also going to work on using it for interfacing to the Meraki API and seeing if we can set up parallel threads . . .   One of the benefits of being a "Geeza" is that conference organisers are quite accommodating when I decline air tickets and chose to travel by train. These days I can get so much work done on the train, and the stations are in the city centres . . .   Finally, thanks to all those people who found something in what I wrote that was interesting. ... View more

@CharlesIsWorkinwrote: @BHC_RESORTSwrote: @tmontano wrote: I have an MX65 and i would like to setup 700 computers connected through DHCP. How would i do this?  That's a lot more clients than is recommended for that model. I would suggest upgrading. Also, as others have pointed out, you can't do that in a /24. I'd recommend either creating multiple VLANs on /24s, or one /22. Will it die? Or choke? I see the recommended max is 50 clients, right? What kind of performance degradation are we talking about? Also, we are talking about active clients, right? Not just cell phones and tablets passively connected I hope. If they don't do anything you can have huge numbers connected. It isn't just the MX65, there isthe available bandwidth provides by the ISP to consider as well.   Based on the questions you are asking and the information you have provided, you would be better off getting a consultant involved, it will save you money and aggravation in the long run. ... View more

@BlakeRichardsonwrote: Thank you for bringing this to my attention, this has bought out some laughter in my office now there is a 💩 SSID that shows up in our list of wireless networks.    My test was conducted on a 🐕Ruckus network running firmware 10.0.1.0 Build 17     Hint - doggy bag . . .  ... View more

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