For the MR to keep track of if the tunnel is up, in monitors traffic. If there is no traffic, it will monitor using DHCP. It doesn't really matter what options are being used, or how it is crafted. If the MR gets a DHCP response of any kind, the tunnel is marked up. You can either specify a specific IP address of a DHCP server, or not. If you specify a server IP, it will send directed DHCP requests to that. After a failover of the secondary concentrator, the MR will continue to monitor the connection to the primary, and preemptively fall back. So I'd argue that if you see the connection flap between DCs, something is dropping either the VPN connection or DHCP packets. You may want to ensure that the VPN Concentrator that the MRs are terminating their VPN connection on is not part of the rest of the AutoVPN topology. I.e. do not use the same MX for AutoVPN SDWAN Cloud and for the SSID tunneling. This is to avoid the "Double Tunnel", as mentioned in the SSID Tunneling document. https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Client_Addressing_and_Bridging/SSID_Tunneling_and_Layer_3_Roaming_-_VPN_Concentration_Configuration_Guide#How_SSID_Tunneling_Works
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