@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

@gabrielcouto wrote: At this case, the client request me to create two SSID, but he would like to roaming between them without any re-authentication. Both SSID are the same layer 2 vlan, but I believe that it is not possible. On the positive side, if the client understood what they were asking, they wouldn't be needing you to implement their half-baked ideas.   Whenever there are "tricky" WiFI design schemes, it is like a warning sign that the design has been implemented before it has been fully resolved. It happens all over IT/IS. ... View more

You also need to make sure that the trunk port allows the Management VLAN as well as the SSID VLANs. ... View more

@PhilipDAth wrote: The last time I used an MS120-8 with fibre was in a factory.  I needed to connect about 3 x PLC controllers which were around 400m away from the rest of the network. When I started automating production plants "a very long time ago", we had to use fibre because of all the interference, safety, and environmental issues. Still we see folk resisting the use of fibre, mostly because the industry has done a really poor job of explaining how to deploy it, and what to use under different use cases. Also most of the time people who haven't used fibre before expect it to be much more expensive than it actually is.   For those that are green inclined, I rather suspect that fibre is more environmentally friendly than copper (subject to sheathing material).   ... View more

I have developed mobile applications for use by clinical staff and regularly work with high speed streaming telemetry. As a matter of course, I now assume that connectivity will be intermittent and that the portable device should synch with the remote servers when the link becomes active, that is asynchronously. So the changes will be replicated. Systems which are dependent on uninterrupted and continuous connectivity are rarely successful. Even in a controlled environment such as a hospital there is no guarantee that connectivity will be continuous.   ... View more

@kredmore wrote: We have Hulu for TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. and all streams fine.  We have trialed other services too, like Playstation Vue, DirectTV Now, etc.  Which ones can't the MX/Z handle?  Just curious... They are not multicast, they are unicast. Multicast is used by a few broadcasters in the US, but is widely used in East Asia and Europe. It makes great sense for telcos selling packages and optimises throughput over the network as a whole, including "the last mile". This way, idf there are three TVs watching the same channel, only one stream comes down to the router which distributes it to those switches that have devices wanting access to the stream attached to them. ... View more

My rules of thumb for home deployments are:   don't chase range wire anything that does not move place an AP in each space that needs WiFi access Far better to have more small APs operating at low power than a few large ones operating at max TX volumes. For WiFi to work the AP has to be able to hear the client device as well as the client device hearing the AP. In the long run shouty APs often create problems.   Sleepovers can be very demanding. They all want to watch the movie on their own tablet. Then when the gang comes round to watch sport, the same thing happens . . .   I would be cautious about running a full stack in a domestic environment because the MX does not handle the flavour of multicast favoured by many broadcasters. So I have a duplicated stack, completely different networks, sharing a common ISP connection. Multicast, IoT devices, Chromecast, Bonjour, Guest WiFi go on one network whilst there is a separate Meraki MX, switch and APs on the secure side.   Meraki is shooting itself in the foot by not supporting IGMP-proxies on the MX/Z range. Imagine making a box specifically for home deployment that cannot handle streaming IP TV from many providers. Many managed service providers would love to be able to expand their offerings to including Meraki managed client sites that require multicast to function correctly. All that is required is a desire to make it happen. ... 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

I have seen numerous people using iZettle with great success.  I was impressed watching folk at a car boot sale using them via WiFi (no mobile signal) and also via mobile in less remote environments. ... 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

@radzima wrote: If you really are a computer scientist you'd have looked at the API docs and gone from there. It's a simple RESTful API with logical endpoints. You can use whatever language you want. The examples are for those that are still learning programming (maybe you should pick up a book and learn a little too). You made a mistake. You made an error in syntax. You blamed the language for your idiocy.   I hope you enjoy your obsolescence as the rest of us learn and adapt to whatever language we want to use.   You absolutely, 100% aren't getting it. @radzima   Now you are trolling me. Cut it out.   Why you are pointing out that the (Meraki) API is RESTful, is beyond me, it is an irrelevant comment. I did not make an error in syntax. You assumed the example I quoted was a mistake that I had made. That is not true, it was an example to illustrate a point. Predictably assuming sure made an ass out of you.   You then go out of your way to be offensive.     ... 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

@radzima   Please don't tell me that I am "not getting it".    Your response perfectly illustrates why anybody, with an informed approach, to computer language design finds Python, at best, lacking.   I'm not a zealot, I'm a computer scientist. I don't actually care about your opinion, because it is not informed. You have worked with a lousy language for a long time and got used to it. To you, Python is a skill, to many people in the wider world, Python is a tool with marked drawbacks.   The fact that you do not find this an acceptable or reasonable viewpoint says more about your skill set than you appear to realise. ... View more

@radzima wrote: That's because it's not an error... you got the syntax wrong - the equivalent of hitting the gas in your car and wondering why you accelerated into a light pole. If you don't know how to use something, you're going to have a bad time no matter the quality or utility of whatever it is you're not using correctly.     Your opinion that it's the "worst language in the world" is by far in the minority and it has become the de facto standard for automation and scripting in the network world. If Meraki hadn't adopted it as the primary language, network engineers wouldn't be using it.  My complaint was the error handling, I know the syntax is wrong but proper error handling should have caught the error.   The fact that lots of people use a language doesn't make it good. The fact that not many people find it egregiously badly designed doesn't invalidate their opinion. Its hardly surprising that a large number of people find they like it if they are familiar with web development, which is a mess.   Your statement that "If Meraki hadn't adopted it as the primary language, network engineers wouldn't be using it", beggars belief. It is a big world out there.   As far as Meraki engineers go, some are using NodeRed, obviously not all take your lime-green tinted view of the world of network engineering.   A language is a tool, not a skill. People have been designing computer languages for over 70 years, there has been a lot of published work done on desirable language features; None of which appears to have informed the creator of Python.   Have you considered that there is a disproportionate number of questions about Python on Stack Overflow because it is so poorly designed and, amongst other factors lacking in orthogonality?         ... 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

@Gustavo wrote: Hello @Uberseehandel,   I'll try this configuration, Is it necessary to add a forwarding rule specific for jabber or only enable the option?     There is lots in the documentation about this topic, but for starters see -    Configuring Bonjour forwarding for the MX security device   also the below from other Meraki documentation -    Common Problems There are a few common problems that can arise when deploying NAT mode with Meraki DHCP to provide client addressing. These problems are outlined in detail below:   Roaming - NAT mode with Meraki DHCP will use the IP address of the AP as the public IP address for wireless clients. When a client roams between APs with Meraki DHCP, TCP connections will drop and have to be re-established. This can cause problems with some applications and devices. Bonjour and multicasting protocols - The client isolation features of Meraki DHCP will prevent wireless clients from communicating with each other. This will prevent Bonjour, layer 2 discovery protocols, and multicasting protocols from working. This can cause problems in networks that use Bonjour among wireless clients, or have IP phones or applications that require multicasting. Inbound client connections - NAT mode with Meraki DHCP prevents inbound connections to a wireless client. This can cause problems if a wireless client needs to be accessible from a different network. . . . . A connection, such as a remote desktop session, from the wired client to wireless client A will fail. Other common examples include failed wireless LAN connections to Chromecast devices, AirPlay enabled devices, printers or projectors.   good luck. ... View more

The problem with most smart devices is that many of them are truly dumb as far as communicating is concerned. Mostly because they have been designed by snowflakes for snowflakes. WiFi chipsets usually selected on the grounds of price alone, no awareness of security, or worse they flagrantly lie about the need for security and the risks involved.   Keep this K-R-*-P on a network of its own.  (Everybody's favorite radio station) ... View more

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looks like you eliminated that possibility ... View more

I know nothing about jabber but - if there is any peer to peer discovery involved, I'd try enabling bonjour forwarding to see if that was required. ... View more

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