BPDUs are never sent untagged. It must have a VLAN-ID. So then yes, you must tag on the non-meraki switch Trunk ports. Which is more manual work to do and get working, and a pain to tshoot.. You don't have to use Option a. You mention the non-meraki switches can run MST. If you run the same Spanning Tree Protocol across all switches. Then it's very easy to design and tshoot. Here is the rest of the quote: "MS series switches to participate in spanning tree a spanning tree instance must be running on VLAN 1 of all switches and VLAN 1 is allowed on all trunk ports running PVST+ so that BPDUs are seen by the Meraki switches in the topology."
... View more