Trusting the September “Update” isn’t simply another delay. Anything less than a detailed roadmap to IPv6 will be simply insulting at this point. ... View more

@Daghan wrote: I run part of Meraki Product Management that includes MX.   We agree (PM / Eng teams) with everyone on this list that we need IPv6 and we need it yesterday!    There is nothing sinister about the delay. It isn't a hardware limitation, nor a Cisco ploy to drive a wedge between Meraki and Enterprise Networking products. In fact, we have engineers working on IPv6 right now and we are in the process of formulating an accurate roadmap. I believe we are within 3-6 months window for being able to articulate what IPv6 features will be available when.    What is taking us this long?   When I launched MX with 2 engineers 8 years ago, we were the little engine that could. One strategy we adopted was to "fit the use-case", not to build generic features. Well, in some instances, we overfitted some of those use-cases that created technical debt. We had no clue that we had to worry about it. If someone came to me in 2011 and said you'll sell 1M MX in the next 8 years, I would have asked which psychedelic drug there were on.   But it happened!  We are energetically trying to redo some of our earlier decisions (network objects, n uplinks, no-nat, full support for BGP...are some highlights from our infinitely long to-do list).   None of the above is an excuse, but I wanted to shine the light of transparency on our thought process.    To remain a strong (we are in fact 14K customers strong) SD-WAN provider, we have to put IPv6 behind us... and we will.   Thanks, Daghan. @Daghan @tnight    In Nov. of 2018 you said and I quote " I believe we are within 3-6 months window for being able to articulate what IPv6 features will be available when." yet a full 10 months later Meraki continues to remain silent and frustrate an ever growing number of us. It's one thing that that Meraki is handling this IPv6 thing poorly in the first place but then to completely ignore their commitment to do better and articulate their plan is simply unacceptable.     ... View more

@DHAnderson wrote: Unfortunately, it sounds like the issue is the design of the MX that is the complicating factor.    The good news is that in the April Quarterly, they did not directly answer a question about IPV6, but they did say that they are working on it. @DHAnderson That is certainly nothing new! It's the same statement Meraki have made during the last umpteen Quarterly's. Meraki's senior management acknowledge they have done a poor job communicating to the community about IPv6 yet do nothing to resolve it.    @Daghan  promised a roadmap months ago yet nothing, just more of the same silence. ... View more

@ScubaSteve wrote: Oh but don't worry.... they are focused on putting things like WAN health which should be a part of the native license into Meraki Insight. What the heck is going on Meraki!     Honestly, I cannot fight for you guys anymore. We have really sucky reporting features. Sure I can see an overview but I can't choose between date and times. No IPv6 capabilities. All of Meraki Insight which shouldn't be a separate nickel and dime package, Poor log keeping (Why can't we save these logs, reports etc on the internal drives with the ones that have them?). No native Meraki VPN Client, No ikev2, the password on the VPN is unencrypted. My gosh. Even the firmware updates are dismal. In order to use anything useful they force you on the Betas.   It just frustrates me after spending 30k + that this is what we get. Don't get me wrong.. the idea behind it is awesome. I see the potential. But its so hard to sit back and watch it take the wrong directions all the freaking time.   I am starting to think Meraki needs some serious restructuring done. This is not the way to run a company that touts itself as enterprise ready. @ScubaSteve the man you want to say this to is @tnight, he's the guy at the top of the Meraki org. chart. @Daghan is on the MX team that commited to regular updates but none provided since popping up his head. I completely agree the Insight functionality SHOULD be part of the MX Enterprise License or MX Advanced Security License at minimum if they are looking for incremental revenue on the product and should not be a nickle and dime add-on as you say. At this point I'm not sure why Meraki even has this community when all they are willing to comment on is the light and fluffy stuff but not post anything in the way of value re IPv6 and when they do comment its with lip service and non-answers for the most part. I just don't get how according to @Daghan in his one and only response they were 3 to 6 months from having a road map 3 months ago, is that his way of saying they hadn't started on a road map yet for a standard that has long been ratified and actively being deployed in the wild by vendors (Meraki excluded of course)? ... View more

@Daghan wrote: I run part of Meraki Product Management that includes MX.   We agree (PM / Eng teams) with everyone on this list that we need IPv6 and we need it yesterday!    There is nothing sinister about the delay. It isn't a hardware limitation, nor a Cisco ploy to drive a wedge between Meraki and Enterprise Networking products. In fact, we have engineers working on IPv6 right now and we are in the process of formulating an accurate roadmap. I believe we are within 3-6 months window for being able to articulate what IPv6 features will be available when.    What is taking us this long?   When I launched MX with 2 engineers 8 years ago, we were the little engine that could. One strategy we adopted was to "fit the use-case", not to build generic features. Well, in some instances, we overfitted some of those use-cases that created technical debt. We had no clue that we had to worry about it. If someone came to me in 2011 and said you'll sell 1M MX in the next 8 years, I would have asked which psychedelic drug there were on.   But it happened!  We are energetically trying to redo some of our earlier decisions (network objects, n uplinks, no-nat, full support for BGP...are some highlights from our infinitely long to-do list).   None of the above is an excuse, but I wanted to shine the light of transparency on our thought process.    To remain a strong (we are in fact 14K customers strong) SD-WAN provider, we have to put IPv6 behind us... and we will.   Thanks, Daghan. @Daghan @tnight Update please, you promised timely updates yet there have been none. Again, none of this IPV6 stuff should come as a surprise to Meraki, therefore, why isn't Meraki with the resources of Cisco behind them further along than this? If at this point you still don't have a roadmap someone quite simply isn't doing their job. Meraki is a premium product not keeping pace with vendors at a fraction of the cost on the IPV6 front. ... View more

@cmw wrote: Man, I'm feeling pretty silly right now.  I have supported v4-only client networks with Meraki gear and thought so highly of it that I ordered one for my office.  It arrived this afternoon, I plugged it in, got to setting up and then couldn't find the v6 config options.  I thought I was just missing them somehow.  And then I found my way here.  And now I'm sad.   It's very much my own fault for making an assumption.  I sheepishly admit that.  I assumed that something I consider fundamental (IPv6 support) to a piece of networking gear like this (MX68W) was just a given. So much so I didn't double check.  I'm a little blown away over it.  I checked my calendar.  Yup, 2018.  It's not 2005.   I think the Meraki product line is awesome and I was so excited to have it in my own network but this is a deal-breaker for me.  I'm really not happy about it but this will have to go back in the box and sent away.   Seriously bummed...   cmw @cmw RMA the hardware and licences, you have 30 days to do so. ... View more

Meraki Team,   Are you hearing any of this? Comments and updates please, acknowledging comments and keeping the community updated on this stuff is not rocket science.   Again, why are we 3 to 6 months out from a roadmap still? None of this makes sense considering IPv6 specifications have been out for so long. ... View more

@Daghan wrote: I run part of Meraki Product Management that includes MX.   We agree (PM / Eng teams) with everyone on this list that we need IPv6 and we need it yesterday!    There is nothing sinister about the delay. It isn't a hardware limitation, nor a Cisco ploy to drive a wedge between Meraki and Enterprise Networking products. In fact, we have engineers working on IPv6 right now and we are in the process of formulating an accurate roadmap. I believe we are within 3-6 months window for being able to articulate what IPv6 features will be available when.    What is taking us this long?   When I launched MX with 2 engineers 8 years ago, we were the little engine that could. One strategy we adopted was to "fit the use-case", not to build generic features. Well, in some instances, we overfitted some of those use-cases that created technical debt. We had no clue that we had to worry about it. If someone came to me in 2011 and said you'll sell 1M MX in the next 8 years, I would have asked which psychedelic drug there were on.   But it happened!  We are energetically trying to redo some of our earlier decisions (network objects, n uplinks, no-nat, full support for BGP...are some highlights from our infinitely long to-do list).   None of the above is an excuse, but I wanted to shine the light of transparency on our thought process.    To remain a strong (we are in fact 14K customers strong) SD-WAN provider, we have to put IPv6 behind us... and we will.   Thanks, Daghan. @Daghan  Thank you for this. I would have hoped that having seen this thread you would have been a little more concrete than this. Despite being a step in the right direction this response too comes across as more of the same non-answer answers to a certain degree and I find 3-6 months to have a roadmap you can communicate more than concerning. Again, IPv6 has been ratified for some time, should you not already be well ahead of this by this time? If not, then Meraki has failed horribly at delivering on the critical support of a STANDARD not a nice to have FEATURE everyone at Meraki seems to treat IPv6 as.   We are well past these sorts of vague and long past due responses. Please make this right and provide concrete details and timelines you surely have by now, how could you not?     ... View more

Not my intent to be disrespectful in suggesting this but this requires drastic measures at this point. Perhaps it's time to Contact Todd Nightingale is SVP, General Manager at Cisco Meraki since everyone below him in the Meraki organization has  ignored our cries for transparency on IPv6 or provided useless responses on the matter.   He has a profile on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-nightingale-a106b510/ He is also on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/tnight?lang=en   Why introduce the new MX products supporting LTE when some carriers and ISP are only supporting IPv6 this late in the game? Meraki needs to focus their resources on fixing this IPv6 predicament NOT releasing new products.     ... View more

@RickJames wrote: Well this thread makes me want to just cry. I just spent crazy amounts of money on this stuff only to learn ipv6 over vpn doesn't work so now i have a 10 thousand dollar utm that can't even provide a vpn? What the ...   Seriously meraki fix this like yesterday please. I can't even begin to explain my amazement by this whole situation. I feel like a complete moron for buying this thing. The AP's work fine but this is completely unacceptable for a device in this price range. I need to be able to provide a vpn through my utm. All I can say is i am not spending another penny on a meraki product until i see this resolved.   If you purchased it less than 30 days ago request an RMA but be sure to tell them why you are doing so. ... View more

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@Austin wrote: We're a startup, setting up our corporate and service network and I need to expose some servers for public access. We have restricted IPv4 space from ISP, so I decide to learn about IPv6. Become IPv6 master (okay, not quite, but much more educated now). I decide IPv6 is the right answer for many challenges we're facing, so I log into my Meraki dashboard to implement IPv6 on MX, MS, and MR. Don't see any options in the menus; decide to find instructions online. Find this thread instead.    Next step: change our network infrastructure? @Austin if you are looking for a response from Cisco Meraki on this don’t hold your breath. All they do is respond with canned non-answer responses and direct you to your Meraki rep. who  I followed up with but they only give the same useless response those Meraki staff in the community give. Both Meraki senior management and Cisco senior management all have public social media accounts (Twitter). It may be time to be reaching out to them directly. My account rep ageeed that might be a good approach since their hands are tied. The current situation is unacceptable.     ... View more