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MattHobbins · ‎May 9 2020

Hi, Im having this exact issue now with our SkyQ mini box keep dropping its connection every few minutes each night. hasnt happened before this week though and had SkyQ for about 2 months now. I know when it was installed i had to whitelist the main box as it was running dhcp so got blocked, i have since spotted the Air Marshal component of the MR33 AP has contained the sky private mesh which is how these boxes talk. I have whitelisted the SSID used and also tried marking the SSID & BSSID as uncontained so no security policy will apply to them but still cant get the system to allow the boxes to talk. Does anyone have any ideas where i can go to fix this before i get chance to run cable through the house? Thanks Matt

MattHobbins · ‎May 8 2019

Have checked this morning and the Meraki is on 10.40 (awaiting service window to update) and the HP is up-to-date. I am just sending port configs (No sensitive info configured yet) for both switches to the 3rd party manufacturer so they can see if there are any coding discrepancies on their cables.

MattHobbins · ‎May 7 2019

The only other link to the HP switch is for the management interface which shouldn't cause any issues but will try checking tomorrow. UDLD is set to "Alert only" and the LLDP doesn't see the HP switch, it just reports the DAC properties ie make model & serial. I will get the HP settings checked tomorrow and hope it can fix the issue. Thanks

MattHobbins · ‎May 7 2019

Hi PhilipDAth, We have both 3m and 5m cables both in passive variety neither option works. Thanks

MattHobbins · ‎May 7 2019

Thanks for your response BrechtSchamp. I know neither manufacturer will officially support this due to using another manufacturers cable on their switch but was hoping somebody in the community may have encountered this scenario or know of a setting to allow this to work. I know it is possible to use SFP's but was hoping not to need to make that the solution due to the number of ports that would end up being used based on 1 DAC cable = 4 SFP's. We have been working with the 3rd party cable vendor to get the correct coding on the cable and as mentioned, the cable is seen by both switches, we just cant get any traffic over the link which, to me, would suggest a config issue somewhere. Thanks

MattHobbins · ‎May 7 2019

Hi Everyone, We are in the process of upgrading our SAN and have the HP Nimble system on its way. We have already received the switches (HP 5700 as specified by winning bid) and are in the process of setting them up but have hit a road block. The plan was to connect them to the Meraki's via DAC cables but we cant seem to get them working, the cable shows up on both switches but we cant get any traffic to pass over the cables. We have tried the following hardware arrangements: Meraki Cable - Meraki to HP sees cable but no traffic Meraki Cable - Meraki to Meraki sees cable and passes traffic HP Cable - Meraki to HP sees cable but n traffic HP Cable - HP to HP sees and passes traffic 3rd party cable - Meraki to HP sees cable but no traffic The 3rd party cable was coded with a Meraki connector on one end and an HP connector on the other. The ports are enabled and have tried various options relating to trunks & Access but still cant get any traffic across these links. Is there something somewhere we have missed? Thanks Matt

MattHobbins · ‎Jan 8 2019

My aims are: Remove all redundant cabling after migrating from Cisco Catalyst to Meraki switching infrastructure Learn Meraki API to speed up and simplify network changes Begin writing a business case for switching to Meraki Wireless solution to keep everything in 1 management console

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