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2 weeks ago
The switch will accept tagged frames and untagged frames on the native VLAN? What sort of magic is that.
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2 weeks ago
If I change the core switch port to a trunk port first, then the access switch will go offline. As the access switch carries on sending untagged frames on VLAN5. If I set the native VLAN on the trunk to VLAN 5 then yes, that would bring the switch back online as the core switch trunk would accept the untagged frames. However, when I then set the access switch static IP on VLAN 5 it would then go back offline again as would start to send tagged frames. I'm back to the same fallback type condition until removing VLAN 5 as the native VLAN from the trunk. It's all rather messy. Perhaps there isn't a good way around it without using one VLAN for DHCP and another for the static IP.
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2 weeks ago
I'm setting up some Meraki access switches and would appreciate any advice from those experienced with them. During the setup, the switches are connected to a core switch access port and start up using DHCP. This works fine, they get an IP address and communicate with the dashboard. I then assign a static IP address on the same VLAN (for example, VLAN 5). The switch receives this new configuration, but immediately switches back to using the DHCP IP instead of the static one. This happens because the access switch starts sending tagged frames on VLAN 5, but is still connected to the core switch port set as an access port. When I change that port to a trunk port, I expect the access switch to start using the static IP automatically. However, this doesn't always happen. I'm wondering if there's a timeout, like after 5 or 10 minutes where the switch tries to use the static IP but then gives up and just decides to keep using to DHCP. If I reboot the access switch then of course it uses the static IP address. It's just not always easy for these switches to be rebooted. If anyone knows how these switches handle this process, including any timers or timeouts, I’d be grateful for your insights.
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Jun 18 2025
2:14 AM
I'm with you on this one, when you have as many tabs open as I do it's fractionally slower now for me to find the Meraki tab.
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Jun 12 2025
8:05 AM
hadn't considered PowerShell, thanks
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Jun 12 2025
7:51 AM
I had the same idea. However the risk of leaking the API credentials to GitHub was too big with that approach, so opted for keeping API keys out of the actual Terraform files.
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Jun 12 2025
2:05 AM
Whatever has been done with the portal, it is a lot slower for me today.
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Jun 12 2025
2:03 AM
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Thanks a lot for replying, using "refreshenv" after updating the API keys, then restarting my Visual Studio sorts this out. Saves me a time consuming reboot!
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Jun 11 2025
8:35 AM
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Am guessing Cisco Live event happening this week was some sort of deadline
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Jun 11 2025
8:33 AM
It's the environment variables for the user account rather than system. Sadly that link doesn't help much I'm afraid.
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Jun 11 2025
6:51 AM
What has happened to the login page today, this is what I get in my browser. It looks like a half rendered webpage, bring back the old branding.
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Jun 11 2025
6:31 AM
I am using the Meraki Terraform provider to make changes to our Dashboards. We have one in Europe and one in China. Every time I want to make a change I have to change my user environment variables API key, then reboot on Win11. Does anyone know of a way to update API keys like this without having to do a reboot?
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Apr 14 2025
6:42 AM
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It's made my life so much easier using Postman with Meraki, it's awesome.
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Apr 14 2025
6:39 AM
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Also I can confirm the same, Essentials is fine for that.
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Mar 31 2025
4:34 AM
Thanks for the quick reply, do you have any more details whilst we go through support?
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Mar 31 2025
4:28 AM
Hi all, We recently turned on LLDP on our switch network and immediately four MR56 access points went offline. Turning off LLDP again and shutting down and turning on the switchports again made no difference. The line protocol shows as completely down with 0 packets in and out. There is 0 inline power consumption for the switchports but over 1000w still available. The access points are MR56 running MR 30.7.1 and connected to Cisco Catalyst 9300 switches (non-meraki managed). Has anyone ever had anything like this happen or offer advice as to what might have gone wrong?
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Mar 25 2025
8:52 AM
I've removed the switches from the network and back to inventory, and back into the network. This removed all the switchport configurations and moved them all back to trunks. I've also changed from using static IP for management IP back to DHCP. Still to same problem. This is actually a pair of switches and the last thing that changed was creating them into a stack. I have also tried remove the stack config, physically removing the stack cables and factory resetting each switch individually, then try to form the stack again. Still the same problem. Support are in the process of issuing an RMA.
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Mar 25 2025
5:18 AM
nmap of the the switch stack in this case only has ssh open. If only I knew what the login credentials were. Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2025-03-25 12:13 UTC
Host is up (0.088s latency).
Not shown: 999 filtered tcp ports (no-response)
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
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Mar 24 2025
7:17 AM
yeah that is already in progress. I wanted to see if the community had any suggestions in the meantime.
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Mar 24 2025
7:01 AM
Managing via Dashboard on v17.1.4. Yeah tried Cisco/Cisco and combinations of upper and lower case, as well as serial numbers.
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Mar 24 2025
6:54 AM
The local status page isn't responding on http. It is however accessible on ssh which is very suspicious. Although I can't login with any combination of serial numbers and admin username, or the local network credentials. Wireless access points connected to the switch on the same management subnet can connect to the dashboard absolutely fine. So the path from the network to the internet is working OK i.e. no firewall issues.
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Mar 24 2025
6:26 AM
Has anyone seen this error before and know how to resolve it? I've got some 9300 switches that are offline and unable to get back online, even after a factory reset. Dashboard connectivity is there as the switches are fetching the config, but not applying it and reverting to some sort of safe config.
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Jan 21 2025
5:25 AM
Thanks for replying, I am definitely making concurrent changes to switchports with the same stack. For example: resource "meraki_devices_switch_ports" "switch1" { for_each = var.sw1_ports_map port_id = each.value.port_id name = each.value.port_name .. ..... So I don't have to create 48 individual switch port resources and use "depends_on" to iterate through 1 at a time.
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