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Apr 19 2024
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Dec 3 2020
10:04 PM
Its claimed Had worked fine. Unplugged it and re-plugged it and then this happened. Thoughts?
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Sep 7 2020
4:43 PM
1 Kudo
Thanks again all for your tireless assistance
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Aug 6 2020
7:34 AM
understood, but from what i understand you wont be using access ports to connect to switches and APs as they themselves will be carrying several VLANs. I thought they all should be trunk ports carrying all needed VLANs. Only supplying a switch with one VLAN seems antithetical to the notion.
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Aug 6 2020
4:58 AM
Ok, I can google it later. So if it is not the native VLAN that determines what subnet/IPs your switches and APs lease from, how do you determine what subnet they belong to?
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Aug 6 2020
2:01 AM
@Uberseehandel - so if i understand this correctly, the native VLAN does not have to be added to trunks and the switches and APs will still lease IPs from the native VLAN subnet? If that is the case, then how do you, yourself, from a different "management" VLAN, access the switches and APs? Btw I think sometimes you think I am asking a more complex question than I actually am. The answer to this, like the above question where I didnt realize I could change the native VLAN on my wired MX ports, may be very simple.
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Aug 5 2020
2:15 PM
I think my question would be how would you not use the native VLAN as the management VLAN? The native VLAN is what assigns IPs to switches and APs, no? So wouldn't you want to be on that VLAN to interface with all those pieces of hardware?
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Jul 28 2020
8:59 AM
Yes I think I have figured it out. I just had literally forgotten that the actual ports on the MX determine the native vlan and that I was to configure them accordingly. Thanks for your patience. It makes sense now. The APs and the switches will all grab their IP from whatever the native VLAN is set to on the trunk originating at the port on the MX.
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Jul 28 2020
8:14 AM
No I’ll need to populate my other switches with the new vlan number so it all works. Did i get the right idea though??
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Jul 28 2020
6:58 AM
@Uberseehandel OK I think I figured it out. Tell me if I got this right. To make a management VLAN, Id create another VLAN (lets say VLAN 5), and then I would change this: I would select VLAN 5 from the "native VLAN" dropdown. This would tell anything connected at Layer 2 to join that VLAN. Then I would change ALL VLANs under "allowed" to the ones needed over each trunk port. I think thats the piece I was missing - to change the native VLAN on the wired ports.
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Jul 28 2020
6:42 AM
Ok - thanks for going slow with me here. How does one define the "management VLAN"? Is it the VLAN labelled default? What makes it so? Right now, the IPs my switches and APs are leasing IPs from the range current ascribed to VLAN1 aka "Default". What designates a VLAN the management VLAN?
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Jul 28 2020
5:17 AM
Thank you both. I’m kind of getting it. The thing i still don’t understand is how will my switches and APs know where to get their IP from? What determines which VLAN leases IPs to layer 2 devices?
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Jul 28 2020
2:39 AM
@Uberseehandel Ok. So then my question is, is it as simple as changing the VLAN ID here from 1 to some other number? And because its called Default, does that mean that all the switches recognize it as the Default VLAN? So lets say I change it to 8. I will need to add 8 to all my trunk ports on switches, but because its called Default does that mean that all my APs will automatically move to it? Thats what Im trying to figure out. VLAN 1 is just a number, but is the name Default the only thing that designated the default VLAN on a network? Put another way, is there a way to leave my Default VLAN as 1, but then tell my switches and APs to live on another VLAN? I dont think I understand the distinction between the "default VLAN" and what makes my switches and APs fetch an IP from a particular VLAN/subnet combo.
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Jul 26 2020
2:31 PM
I see- so the port feeding an AP with multiple SSIDs on multiple VLANs would be a trunk port, but for single devices that live on one VLAN they should be access.
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Jul 26 2020
2:25 PM
One more question for you guys. So in the world of VLANs... If I have a wired device that I desire to join a certain subnet/VLAN combo when its connected to a switch, is the VLAN-based method for making sure that happens designating it a port and then assigning that port with only one VLAN's traffic? Like on an MX for example, if you allow all VLANs on all ports as is default, when you plug in an ethernet port, does it Default (maybe answers my question right there) to the default VLAN's subnet for a DHCP lease? And if I did NOT want it to join that subnet, the next thing would be to configure the port it connects to only pass one VLAN's (4 in this case) traffic to make sure it got the right subnet's lease? Could I also handle this with a MAC address based DHCP assignment?
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Jul 26 2020
2:00 PM
@Uberseehandel but ok to have the switches hanging out on vlan 1, nothing more, yes?
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Jul 25 2020
3:52 AM
@PhilipDAth followup As I am moving from the ALL VLANs allowed to specific tagging on all my switches, for the admin SSID, which I want to have access to all VLANs (I think?), if I have 4 VLANs, is this what this part of the access control panel should look like? Followup 2 I may have answered my own question - Hmm actually all I care about on this network is it having access to the default VLAN so I can access all my wired infrastructure. So really I would only want that VLAN # under "All other APs", correct? Followup 3 - and does it matter that the default VLAN is still VLAN ID 1 even though I changed the subnet? From your comments above you seem less vigilant about that and if its fine as is Id rather not change it.
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Jul 25 2020
3:32 AM
You da Kiwi. Thanks a lot!
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Jul 24 2020
1:12 AM
@PhilipDAth So if I change my default vlan to 192.168.3.0/24 which all my APs and network infrastructure lives on plus maybe an invisible SSID called admin that I can log into for access to that vlan, and then create another vlan for all my user traffic and SSID, this meets your spec for VLAN config, yes? Additionally, on the MX's physical ports, I change the Allowed VLANs tag from ALL to the specific numbers that will be active on those ports and then all is set, correct?
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Jul 11 2020
2:31 AM
1 Kudo
@colinster We might just do that. I recently posted this: https://community.meraki.com/t5/Wireless-LAN/WLAN-speeds-suddenly-became-erratic/m-p/91249#M13427 I think reflecting on this thread might have given me the answer to what was going on. At one point in the last month or so I created a new RF profile which removes UNII-1 ranges. I applied this profile to two of the affected three stations. The plan had been to integrate a point to point Ubiquity shot which uses UNII -1 and I didnt want our Meraki stuff stepping on its toes. That ended up not happening (we found another solution) but in the meantime developed the problem in the above thread. What I didnt realize and now gather was that DFS prevents the use of some of those middle channels, so effectively there was some co-channel interference at 80mhz with UNII1 off limits. We changed to 40mhz channels and reenabled UNII1 on all APs and the speed issue seems to have disappeared. I think we could probably reenable 80mhz channels but I dont think it will make a huge difference for us in terms of speed as I cap WAN bandwidth at 150mbit and we aren't sending a lot of big files that would necessitate 80mhz wide channels. Does that all make sense to you?
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Apr 2 2020
3:39 AM
@colinster @Thanks! The gateways are generally far enough from each other that I’m not really worried about them interfering On 5ghz. They all seem to have intelligently figured out their channels. I think my main question was about getting a little more range in exchange for unutilized bandwidth but I think things are probably good.
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Apr 1 2020
1:36 AM
@GIdenJoe- I find that the channel width is changing automatically and that there appears to be a seeing in Radio Settings to that effect, no?
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Mar 31 2020
1:08 PM
I think I understand about 80% of that. I dont have issues when larger parties come but I also havent noticed if it drops the channel width to 40mhz. Presumably, Meraki's auto will handle all this, yes? Its feeling more like I should trust it as it seems to be doing a good job now.
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Mar 31 2020
12:22 AM
Hello! I have something like 9 gateways and 9 repeaters on a rural property out in the woods where there is ZERO interference of any kind. We have a 250/250 ATT fiber line on the property (limited to like 120mbit per SSID (of which there is one) per AP). Not too hilly but a bunch of trees that line the areas where people live in. We get great ATT cell signal which fills in the gaps for the most part as people walk across property. The property, where people live and work, is pretty much covered with wifi well. There are a few dropout spots here and there and every now and then you can find a corner that isn't covered. Lots of MR52s. I have relatively zero to low complaints about signal and speed is always rock solid. I have everything set to automatic. And I wonder if it could get *even better* with 40mhz channels. There are at most 150 people on property but thats 1% of the time when we have an event and theyre pretty well spread out and low bandwidth using for things like weddings etc. Is there anything I could test to tell me definitively whether this would be even better? A range test? There is a spot indoors under a metal roof very near a MR74 that doesn't penetrate it too well into the building and I kinda wonder, if I didnt want to spend another indoor MR on it if 40mhz would help it. Again, not really troubleshooting anything per se. I also trust Meraki HW to downshift on the fly to 40mhz if it detects it would work better. Looking at my client list of about 70 right now (35 residents Macs and iPhones plus a few Sonos devices, printers, etc) the Apple devices are 80% at 80mhz with about 20% of APs at 40mhz. And again, people by and large love the service quality. Only issues come with people who are using ancient (2013) hardware and with that Im pretty sure the antennas and chipset ages are to blame. Everything is on full auto right now. I dont want to mess anything up! Your thoughts welcome.
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Feb 28 2020
4:12 AM
3 Kudos
Gosh darnit. Got snagged by an old Mac OS X gotcha - I had to go to Network prefs and reorder the services so that the VPN “interface” was a higher priority. Issue resolved.
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Feb 28 2020
4:06 AM
1 Kudo
@Jwiley78 Good thought but both are on the same Wifi. I dont get cellular here so thats not it haha. So the wifi works for VPN on Phone just not on Mac.
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