Hello, I have a cisco catalyst 2960 switch, routing disabled, just being setup as a layer 2 switch. Port 1 is connect to the Meraki MX64 Port 1, Port 2 is connected to the Meraki MR20 AP. Both switch ports 1 and 2 are setup as Trunk ports all VLANS allowed. Both devices are connected to meraki cloud with static IPs and functioning. I want the MX to handle all VLAN tagging and routing. I have setup VLANS 1,2,3,4 on the MX.I also have DHCP setup on all VLANS. With that said, what should my layer 2 switch configuration be in order for the MX to do all the VLAN tagging and such? I talked with Meraki for a few hours today and i kept hearing conflicting setups. One person would tell me NO i do NOT need to setup ANY VLANS on the switch since the MX will be tagging VLANS then minutes later say the complete opposite. I also had a person yesterday tell me i didnt need to setup ANY VLANS on the switch at all as well. I FINALLY figured out that when i tag SSID with VLAN 3, i had to configure the switch with VLAN 3. So i was then able to connect to the SSID and obtain a VLAN 3 IP address. The AP works now yay. However, how do i configure the switch for all LAN devices? Do i need to configure VLAN 1,2,3,4 on the switch as well (even though the meraki is supposed to be tagging) and then assign the access ports on the switch to the whatever VLAN i want? So assign port 4 to VLAN 2, connect a laptop to port 4, and should then be able to get a VLAN 4 IP from the MX? If so, this isn't working for me. 1. ) To reiterate, I think my switch config is just wrong. How do i set the switch and MX device up so that the MX is doing all the VLAN tagging and handing out the correct DHCP address according to the port the device is connected to on the switch? 2.) If the MX is handling all the VLAN tagging, and i have devices connecting to a layer 2 switch, how does the MX know what to tag each device as? I assume this is why VLANS are necessary on the switch? Networking is not my strong suit so i am sure there is just something simple i am missing.
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