Hi  It took me some time to do the tests, however I was not able to replicate the situation. The DHCP scope 192.168.0.0/16 did not show up again after various factory resets. I must assume that the faulty device has already been used in a test setup previously and had an old configuration on it. Since the spare MX did not have a direct internet connection during my tests with the errors happening, it might have started to distribute IP addresses from its DHCP server.   This brings me to two other questions (tell me if I should ask it in a separate thread): what does a spare MX do in terms of packet forwarding on the LAN ports? Would an internal DHCP server on a spare MX be able to intercept DHCP packets and answer them? ... View more

Hi Nick First the cabling was not ok, since the standby MX was only connected to the primary MX via LAN port and no working internet uplink was present. After correcting the cabling and rebooting the MX I did a factory reset on the attached switches so I assume that they had to redo the DHCP discovery. And since active and standby MX were up and running in the dashboard I assume that the standby MX had the correct config.   But I have to redo the setup to see if it behaves the same way again. Thanks for your support. Cheers  Mat ... View more

Hi Philipp thanks for the fast reply. Both MX were connected to the same Internet access box on the internet interface and both MX's had were connected to both switches (all links up, at least what the LEDs said). The config in the dashboard for the MX ports was set to trunk/native VLAN1 in a template and therefore in the bound network as well. So I would say yes, same internet uplink and same Layer 2 domain. Kind regards Mat ... View more

Thanks for the reply Nolan.   There is a possibility to prevent the access point from broadcasting the SSIDin SSID availability, so 'kind of' a way to hide it. Then furthermore a WPA2 password and a IP filter can add to make the SSID unusable. But the easiest way would be to switch it off completely. The dashboard in my opinion is built for single organizations, but when cloning of a Template-Org comes into play, the requirements of each clone org might vary. ... View more

Thanks Philip   That explains everything clearly and my tests prove that you're right.   Cheers Mat ... View more

I did not yet know about the well-behaved part of the FW. But looking at it it makes a lot of sense in terms of economizing ports.   Thanks for your endurance in answering my questions. Mat ... View more

Hi Philipp I have done further tests and I still can generate IP address overlaps. Just to make sure that I understand the concept of overlap checking in Meraki: Are the checks made per network bound to the same template (in which I define the uniqueness) or are the checks made based on the entire organization (all networks bound to a template and the ones that are not bound to a template)? Thanks for reading and supporting people. Mat ... View more

Let me rephrase my question: How does the Meraki Cloud populate the list for hubs in the Site-to-Site VPN configuration for spokes? In my opinion it makes a difference if a hub network is bound to a template or if it's not. I want to understand the reason why it is that way. I did not find any documentation that points this out. ... View more

Thanks Brecht for all the time you dedicate to my issue. The way I see it there must be a mechanism in the ISP FW NAPT process that re-uses previously assigned source ports for different IP addresses in the outgoing direction (which makes sense from an economical assignment point of view). This way the hole punching basically opens the same port on the public side for all outgoing UDP connections from the same inside source address.   That way the whole model can work.   Kind regards and many thanks again. Mat ... View more

Hi Brecht Thanks for the answer and sorry for the delay. I still have a question. The way I understand PAT (NAPT) it always consists of a two tuples: one describing local SrcIP/SrcPort and the corresponding global SrcIP/SrcPort, the other one describing local DstIP/DstPort and the corresponding global DstIP/DstPort.   Now for the MX1 this would be something like local IP10.1.1.1/UDP40001 and global IP1.2.3.4/UDP40001 to local 64.62.142.12/UDP9350 and global 64.62.142.12/UDP9350. This in my opinion punches a hole for the connection between the two endpoint IP addresses. When having a second MX2 behind the same ISP firewall the situation would look like that: IP10.1.1.2/UDP40001 and global IP1.2.3.4/UDP40002 to local 64.62.142.12/UDP9350 and global 64.62.142.12/UDP9350. The UDP port for both MXs differs on the outside, but in my opinion only for the communication to 64.62.142.12/UDP9350.   When assuming that an access point tries to set up a connection to MX2 it sends a UDP packet to IP1.2.3.4/UDP40002. Since the public IP address of the access point is not known the packet is dropped at MX2's ISP FW. Now if the MX2 tries to open the communication to the AP: is there a rule for the ISP FW to use the same UDP port number (40002) to the different public IP address of the access point? Or is it just the way most of the NAPT devices work?   Sorry to bother you again but maybe you can help me understand the process more profoundly.   Kind regards Mat ... View more

@kYutobi: I do not find anything specific about AutoVPN Hubs in the document. Am I missing something there? ... View more

Hi Brecht Thanks for your reply. But if I understand you correctly, the non-Meraki FW would change the port in your scenario. How can the Meraki VPN registry track the different outside port? In my opinion there is no direct relationship between the FW and the registry. So some messaging (error messages?) could be used for this update but I don't see any way, how to do this update.   In my opinion it could only work, if the VPN registry remarks the duplicate port numbers before it announces them and urges one of the data center MXs to change it's source port and then re-announce it. Or Meraki relies on coincidence with the random function on the port range.   Cheers Mat  ... View more

Hi Philipp even though in some configuration situations I received error messages about overlapping IP subnets and I was not able to proceed I was able to configure my network in a way to have overlapping IP subnets. This was the case when I added a spoke site that used the pool of IP subnets out of the template. I do not know why the tests work when trying to add a hub site with overlapping IP addresses but not in the case where a spoke site gets an IP address out of the pool. So I think that the best strategy is still to use non-overlapping address spaces for hub and spokes, but that was clear in the first place. Thanks for taking the time for replying my (silly) questions. Matthias   ... View more

Hi Nolan Thanks for giving me such precise answers to all of my questions, I really appreciate that very much! I have found the Org>Firmware Upgrade page and am already playing around a bit. I let the question on an unsolved state for a little moment, even though you have replied and solved almost all of my questions. Just in case somebody has some more info tho share. I will however put it to solved shortly. Thanks again Mat ... View more

Hi Philipp That's where I expected to see them but it seems that this is for site-to-site AutoVPN type of connections to other MXs only. It seems that apart from the "Test Connectivity" button in the SSID configuration panel there is nothing to show that the connection is working. And the results of "Test connectivity" are not easy to interpret, especially failed ones.   But thanks anyway for your answer. Mat ... View more

If the MX is the DHCP server the incomplete ARP is not likely to be the issue since the traffic is routed and ARP is only necessary for the default gateway IP address in the local VLAN. It looks to me as if something in the DHCP processing on the client side as gone wrong. Did you do an ipconfig /all (or whatever the OS of the client might need to display the IP config) to see if the DNS servers and the Default Gateway were present in the PC?  If everything is/was ok, could/can you ping the DNS server? Are you able to able to ping devices in proximity to the DNS server? ... View more

Thanks for the reply! ... View more