I think I may have it. The key issues appeared to be time & Native VLAN In regards to TIME - I have run into this before with Meraki devices and I can only guess that being a cloud based config, sometimes they need time to settle into their configuration. My experience has shown that some devices like the MX and apparently those in this type of configuration, are more sensitive to constant changes As for Native VLAN – I reset everything to the default VLAN of 1 then once everything settled in (alerting but still working) I changed things around to my desired configuration So what did I do? Set up the Gateway and Repeater APs and left it working with nothing connected and no changes over the Thanksgiving long weekend Took the remote switch and reset it to factory settings (no configuration) Plugged it in and left it for 30 min. Everything stayed ONLINE though the remote switch was alerting (management address from wrong VLAN) Then I started configuring the Native VLAN for management (on the TRUNK uplink port) along with the same VLAN for the remote wired devices (on the Access ports) Set a static management IP Wired clients getting DHCP addresses (on the native VLAN) Wireless getting DHCP addresses per SSID
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