Greetings - We noticed a multiple orders of magnitude drop in "Passersby" traffic counts between Jan.20 (122,420) and Jan.21 (1765). So I asked Meraki support for an explanation which went like this: Meraki: we implemented a solution to this on January 21st to bypass this randomization and give an accurate representation of your passerby traffic (emphasis mine) Me: Interesting – how did you bypass MAC randomization for iOS devices that have never authenticated to the WiFi network? Meraki: For passerby traffic to be generated on the dashboard we don't need devices to connect only for them to send an association to any SSID/AP or the like and our APs see that. As far as what our development team did to workaround that MAC randomization feature, unfortunately, I have no visibility into that code base or actual inter-working of how that change was implemented and even if I did, I would be unable to provide you with it as it would be considered proprietary information. Me: (mmkay) I still need to explain to my clients why Meraki has been providing misleading data for the last seven years and why this massive change in their analytics is now more accurate considering iOS has developed technology specifically to thwart this kind of data capture. Still waiting on a response to this, but if anyone has any insight into this I'd be grateful. Until then I will be telling clients that Meraki's solution was: "WE DIVIDED THAT BIG NUMBER BY 70!!!" Thank you.
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