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Sep 8 2021
12:09 PM
haha, came to forums just to confirm this. Easy to blame my 2 year for slamming my keyboard, but couldn't figure out how to revert fonts back JUST for meraki dashboard on my browser (Firefox). Previous fonts/size were just fine.
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Dec 15 2019
2:02 PM
So, staff is probably another 150 and then labs and library is another 80. So grand total of around 850 devices.
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Dec 15 2019
2:00 PM
Very nice, seems like I need to do a lot of testing in lab before deploying this in prod.
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Dec 13 2019
1:14 PM
This is amazing stuff! If I go for 2 devices each, roughly around 500-600 devices total. In our current setup, we are simply dropping all (Student/staff) Wi-Fi traffic into a single VLAN. So, per user vlan tagging isn't going to be efficient enough and better to go with two SSID? It will be Windows 2019 NPS and this will be first time RADIUS setup. All domain joined machines (labs, classrooms etc.) are 100% Windows 10. Your BYOD VLAN suggestion is very cool, I didn't know about the issues with 802.1x. With this approach, we may not be putting all BYODs in the same VLAN but at least authentication is happening, which is the goal. I will read up more on splash page configuration. So, the machine authentication bit is very interesting. What are you recommending is that we do both machine+user authentication, but that still doesn't solve the problem of getting the group policy applied before login? so better to leave domain joined machine authentication alone?
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Dec 13 2019
10:41 AM
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Dear Experts, Soliciting some opinions: SSID setup: We basically have a set of two groups, Student and Staff. Students do not need access to anything else other than the Internet throughout the campus. Is it recommended to go with two separate SSIDS in this scenario? School-staff, school-students Using RADIUS Separate VLAN for students OR, if we are going the RADIUS and VLAN route anyways, maybe just do group based VLAN assignments and keep SSID to one? Readin through this, it seems it's always better to reduce SSIDs? https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/WiFi_Basics_and_Best_Practices/Multi-SSID_Deployment_Considerations BYOD: What is the best approach. We want everyone to use their unique credentials (AD/RADIUS) Is it possible to get the login prompt (windows/Mac) when they connect their perosnal machines (non-domain joined) to ethernet (Meraki switches) What about their routers (if any) and other devices such as Apple watch etc.? Machine Auth: For domain joined machines, I see here that it's possible to do machine authentication because we don't want any login prompts https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Encryption_and_Authentication/Configuring_RADIUS_Authentication_with_WPA2-Enterprise I couldn't find any detailed documentation for Machine auth in Meraki docs, any recommendations? Lastly, if I want to achieve RADIUS failover, according to this: https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/MR_Splash_Page/RADIUS_Failover_and_Retry_Details All I need to do is setup two RADIUS server with identical configuration, and then add servers>strict policy? Thanks!
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Nov 5 2019
8:41 AM
Thanks @Nash ! I read through the document you linked and we definitely need MX250. You guessed campus situation correctly, that is the plan for now but I will get something going for L3 switches also. Really appreciate your input!
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Nov 1 2019
1:36 PM
Good to know! If I just continue our current setup, we will have just 6 VLANs to cover our requirements for now. The only time we see heavy inter VLAN traffic is when we are pushing images to client machines, which we are also working on to make image deployments thinner and add on applications later. Other times, it will be just providing internet to everyone and basics like dhcp relays, DNS etc.
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Nov 1 2019
1:26 PM
Thank you @PhilipDAth I actually read a lot of your answers as a lurker before joining community and purchasing equipment. MS425-16 were exactly what was on my radar, we will be going roughly 3-4 switch in roughly 4-5 buildings. I have same question for you actually, would it be less hassle to get started with just mx and then some time next year we add MS425-16?
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Nov 1 2019
1:23 PM
@Nash lol @ "Friends don't let friends use MX to route in large environments." So this means Meraki sales personnel weren't my friends? so we had design discussion also, it was one of those scenarios where we had to meet certain budget and L3 switch was going to add a lot of additional cost. Minimum, we will go is 25 switches and yes, as of now, the plan is to use just MX. In your experience, would it be terribly difficult to start with MX and then add L3 switch when we get more money/grants etc?
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Nov 1 2019
1:18 PM
Thanks @NolanHerring So seems like MX64 is a no brainer. I think our environment will have more MR55 than 45, so I should stick with 55. So I am not going to pretend I 100% understand the utility of physical stacking in our environment, but so far there are no such plan. Since this is educational org, we mostly have students and classrooms to deal with. With that being said, I am hoping I don't need the same exact model when it comes to switches and can just get by with an 8 port MS120?
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Nov 1 2019
10:16 AM
Hello Good folks, I am very new to Meraki equipment and have worked with HP and Ubiquiti before (Successfully manged to stay away from relatively complex networking setups up until now). I was just wondering what type of test lab environment folks here have setup to test configurations before pushing them out to production? Or do you just go direct to production? Or is there a software ( I googled and found packet tracer for cisco) that I am not aware of? Whats the minimum recommended gear/model that can be used to test most of the Meraki features? Our production environment will roughly have: 1 x MX100 or MX250 50 x MR45 or MR 55 30 x MS125 Some of the features we will use: Content filtering, RADIUS authentication, Windows DHCP, port scheduling, VPN, traffic shaping etc. Thanks
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Oct 25 2019
10:12 AM
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Hello All, I am Zak. Work as sysadmin/network admin. I don't have any previous Meraki experience, however, very excited to be adding a lot of devices soon to our environment.
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