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I see this at the bottom of an MX data sheet: POWER CABLES 1x power cable required for each MX, 2x power cables required for MX250 and MX450. For US customers, all required power cables will be automatically included. Customers outside the US are required to order power cords separately. https://meraki.cisco.com/lib/pdf/meraki_datasheet_mx.pdf My experience in the US is that a power cord is alway included *unless* you specifically order just one with multiple devices. So if you order 10 MXes and one power cord you well get exactly that. If you just order 10 MXes you will get 10 power cords with them.

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I would ask your Cisco reseller for a free trial to be sent to one of the sites. If it works you can just pay for it and keep it. It seems very unlikely for an ISP to be blocking Meraki.

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If you did a hard reset then the static IP on the WAN ports is lost and will need to be configured again via the local admin page.

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I have an MSP portal so I see dozens of organizations and I just checked a few and their MXes are on 13. That is why I figured it must be a GA push. I'll poke around more and wait to hear if anyone else sees this post and saw the same before I panic or call support, I guess..

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Huh, I see it as stable release candidate too. I wonder why all these organizations in my portal got auto scheduled to upgrade from 13 to 14.39. Is that normal?

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My email blew up with upgrade notices, lol

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That’s a lot of clients. What is your application that is using up 8000 addresses? How long is your lease?

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@NolanHerring wrote: I use this Acceltex AP/Antenna mount for my MR74 in warehouse. Thankfully it has two of these i-beam bolts that clamp down so its very secure, but even with both of those, I still require the installers to have a metal wire cable crimped to the antenna mount itself, and to the i-beam because if this thing were to get knocked by a forklift or something, the Ethernet cable would not be able to hold it. If this were to fall from 40 feet its going to do serious damage. http://shop.acceltex.com/product_info.php?cPath=113&products_id=273 Good point. OP might consider a safety strap so even if it comes loose from a ceiling tile it can't fall on someone.

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This shouldn't be needed at all unless you are blocking outbound traffic with higher priority rules. It does not appear that way from your screenshot. At default, Meraki will allow all traffic to flow.

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Sorry but I am not really sure. It is something you may just need to try and see. Wy couldn't you add another domain though? It would be cheap and easy and seems to have a good chance to work. Another idea might be to use Meraki authentication for staff and give them all account credentials.

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I think you would only be able to separate these if you can use two different domains. *Maybe* you can have a subdomain or alias in GSuite that would work. So if students and teachers all use myschool.com maybe you can also have myschoolabc.com or myschool.net in GSuite for them to use for the purpose of WiFi authentication.

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Also, even if you made it work with Meraki and antennas there is a problem of Meraki only allowing one VLAN to be bridged. It would not work as true Layer 2 bridge.

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No, there is nothing like that for Meraki. I have used Engenius for shorter point to point bridges and they work well. I would go with that or possibly Ubiquiti. Both are cheap and should work well.

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Interesting. I had no idea. I decided to test a dynamic Meraki hostname and it seems there are some issues with dynamic-m.com

BrandonS · ‎01-14-2019

Ping a host on your LAN from the dashboard? Is that what you are asking?

BrandonS · ‎12-28-2018

You don't have control of the DHCP server options when you use NAT mode. Normally NAT mode is for guests, why are you not using bridge mode and then you can use your own DHCP server or the one in the MX appliance if you have one?

BrandonS · ‎12-28-2018

Yes, I have had "weird" and inconsistent results as well. I don't consider it much more than a base line test and don't completely trust it. That said, I think it is still a useful starting point, but I would not take the results and tell a cable contractor they need to go fix their cable necessarily without closer inspection.

BrandonS · ‎12-20-2018

Heh, I was sort of close after looking at the blog post. I think I like the green dot the least. It serves no purpose that I can discern and won't translate to black and white documents well.

BrandonS · ‎12-20-2018

A searchable switch/firewall combo with power on? That is a bit odd..

BrandonS · ‎12-19-2018

@jdsilva wrote: It's a binary file. You cannot read it without knowing how to decode it :( That sounds like a challenge to me ;)

BrandonS · ‎12-17-2018

Doh! Just moments too late for the gnome..

BrandonS · ‎12-14-2018

I guess you tried factory defaulting them? Maybe you could try moving some to a different network temporarily with a minimal (or no) configuration and monitor them for a few days to see if they still reboot. This may help rule out a software issue vs. hardware.

BrandonS · ‎12-12-2018

I've seen these third party tracking applications that integrate with Meraki: https://create.meraki.io/build/rtls/#how-to-integrate-with-stanley-aeroscout It will depend on what kind of assets and if you plan to purchase tags, I suppose, but it is technically possible.

BrandonS · ‎12-07-2018

Is it claimed and added to a network?

BrandonS · ‎12-06-2018

@PhilipDAth wrote: That is how I would do it. Thanks for the endorsement. I am not sure why I felt there might be some better way.. I guess a media converter and a cheap copper switch might be another option, but I wouldn't propose it for this particular client.

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