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blakekrone

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‎07-05-2018
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Re: If you're attending Cisco Live Orlando - TELL ME!

by blakekrone in Off the Stack
‎05-18-2018 09:46 AM
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Always there 🙂   Shirt medium ... View more

Re: Q: MX65-W in the Security Appliance Network, can a Wireless Network be ...

by blakekrone in Security / SD-WAN
‎12-21-2017 04:59 AM
‎12-21-2017 04:59 AM
It’s been recommended by meraki members in many customer accounts for years and does work. Not ideal but it does work.  ... View more

Re: Q: MX65-W in the Security Appliance Network, can a Wireless Network be ...

by blakekrone in Security / SD-WAN
‎12-20-2017 07:31 PM
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‎12-20-2017 07:31 PM
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Nothing attacks so terminology is a little off here.   The MX65W can be in the same dashboard/network as additional MR units, so they would be known and things would be ok. Matter of fact that is a recommended deployment for smaller locations where only a small handful (i.e. 2 or 3) of APs are needed. ... View more

Re: Meraki Authentication: bulk user creation

by blakekrone in Dashboard & Administration
‎08-22-2017 05:58 PM
‎08-22-2017 05:58 PM
There doesn't exist a way today, that would be something that would be nice if the Dashboard API supported at least if they aren't going to expose an UI based upload. ... View more

Re: Have a status page so you know what parts of the Meraki system are havi...

by blakekrone in Dashboard & Administration
‎08-22-2017 05:52 PM
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‎08-22-2017 05:52 PM
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Exactly, dashboard might be up for you, but not for others because of how the SHARD is setup. If you want to know more about the SHARD and how the backend is setup I did a blog post about it that can be found here:   https://blakekrone.com/select-from-vendors-where-id-meraki/   And the Tech Field Day video from Sean Rhea discussing the backend:   http://techfieldday.com/video/meraki-now-part-of-cisco-cloud-architecture-deep-dive-with-sean-rhea/ ... View more

Re: In accurate Device type reported by Meraki

by blakekrone in Full-Stack & Network-Wide
‎08-21-2017 06:58 PM
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‎08-21-2017 06:58 PM
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The base of device fingerprinting is OUI lookup tables. You can also profile a device based off of the DHCP request that it might send up, or if it does a Captive Portal detection that makes a request to a web page you can intercept the request and grab the User-Agent string. From my experience Meraki is matching on OUI and maybe DHCP fingerprinting, then also using LLDP if the device supports that.   I've put in a ton of changes and have never seen improvements there. ... View more

Re: What are Meraki's best practice settings for Wifi?

by blakekrone in Wireless LAN
‎08-21-2017 06:46 PM
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‎08-21-2017 06:46 PM
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Everyone you ask will have different answers to this question. There are no best practices, there are best choices for the design you are building to meet the requirements of the client devices. I teach design courses and am always asked what best practices exist and my answer is always "There are no absolutes in wireless" because what works for one site might not work for another.   Case in point already in this thread things like disabling lower data rates was mentioned, the energy still exists on the channel, it just requires clients to be able to operate at higher data rates to associate to a BSSID, whether or not it reduces airtime utilization depends on the environment a lot. While yes clients will operate at higher data rates, more frequent roaming events could occur, which can cause other delays.   Client band steering, well that's a tough one, on one hand if you built a design focused on 5GHz why not have a 5GHz only SSID that your devices connect to and have a 2.4GHz only network for those devices that don't support 5GHz? Is that a better route than using band steering? It all depends.   802.11r, this sounds great but so many devices don't support it. So do we enable it or not? Again it comes down to what does your devices support? If you enable it will older legacy devices stop working? The more complex we make the beacons the more likely legacy devices are to have problems.   I would worry less about best practices and make sure you know what your RF design goals are and build towards that. If we can't meet our physical RF requirements capacity and performance will not be met. The most important design and best practice is to reduce Co-Channel and Adjacent Channel Interference as much as possible. ... View more

Re: Have a status page so you know what parts of the Meraki system are havi...

by blakekrone in Dashboard & Administration
‎08-21-2017 01:36 PM
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‎08-21-2017 01:36 PM
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I would agree, it would be nice to have more information other than just the simple "it's down" message.  ... View more
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