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JustinBennett

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Member since May 13, 2022

‎12-09-2022

Justin Bennett

Los Angeles, CA

I work for Knowing Technologies. I work from Los Angeles, CA but we support clients from San Diego to Seattle, WA. I'm a Senior Technical Engineer / Supervisor and I've been working with Meraki MX, MS, MR devices for almost a year now. I've been working with Cisco Networking for over 25 years.

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Re: remote VPN clients not showing correctly in terminal server

by JustinBennett in Security / SD-WAN
‎12-06-2022 03:57 PM
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‎12-06-2022 03:57 PM
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I had the same issue once I moved my RDP servers behind their own protected firewall subnet in my datacenter. Load balancing, RDP Gateway, or NAT on the RDP Hosts can cause the source client IP address to be obscured or dropped for numerous other reasons. I was very sad once I lost this insight as well to my RDP farm.  ... View more

Re: MS 425-16 integration with Fortinet

by JustinBennett in Switching
‎12-06-2022 03:18 PM
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‎12-06-2022 03:18 PM
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@GIdenJoe is correct. You need to consider the packer per second load on the firewall. I've had to move a customer that was using an MX250 for all the L3 SVI and DHCP to their MS410-32 because of CPU overload. Firewalls don't operate as inter-vlan routers well. You need to know the PPS processing power of the Fortigate in order to make an educated decision. A MS425-16 as a PPS forwarding rate of 357.14 Mpps - roughly 21 Gbps at 8 bytes per packet between L3 interfaces. In contrast, an MX250 only has a PPS forwarding rate of 95.23 M pps - roughly 5.5 Gbps at 8 bytes per packet between L3 interfaces.   This doesn't take into account all the extra work the process needs to do firewall processing and anti-virus and threat protection processing primarily. A switch does not need to perform these additionally tasks and has more dedicated CPU time to perform extra duties such as DHCP. ... View more

Re: Moving ACL from Cisco 3750 to MS425

by JustinBennett in Switching
‎12-06-2022 10:23 AM
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‎12-06-2022 10:23 AM
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It may assist others to fully explain the differences.   The Meraki ACL rules refers to IP addresses and subnets using CIDR notation. It allows you to only block or allow traffic between networks - not just a single switch. It's good for example of "securing camera traffic" or "protecting guest subnets from cross network communication to other LAN clients".   The Catalyst ACL is using a wildcard format that is like a reversed subnet mask.  It allows you to apply the list to access to virtual routing, ports, SVI interfaces, VLANs, and mgmt services on a single switch.   As @KarstenI mentioned, the ACL will be applied to every switch - not just one. It also has a single purpose of blocking or allowing traffic. You need to see what the Catalyst ACL is protecting and see if it's still relevant. You can translate the wildcard rules to CIDR notation to put them in Meraki. (you can easily google "wildcard subnet calculator" to find an online tool to convert them), but you want to ensure you understand the entire network impact this will have. Once installed, all the switches will get the ACL traffic rules.  Ref: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3750/software/release/12-1_14_ea1/configuration/guide/3750scg/swacl.pdf Ref: https://documentation.meraki.com/MS/Other_Topics/Switch_ACL_Operation ... View more

Re: Feature Request: SFP Optical Diagnostics ("sh int transceiver" for thos...

by JustinBennett in Switching
‎12-05-2022 03:27 PM
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‎12-05-2022 03:27 PM
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Need this as well. Please add this feature soon. ... View more

Local DNS Server for MX / MS Devices

by JustinBennett in Make-a-Wish (Feature Requests)
‎05-19-2022 11:49 AM
‎05-19-2022 11:49 AM
As we try to get customer off on-premise servers, having DHCP and DNS hosted locally is key to making that occur.   Both the MX and MS devices can host DHCP server for local subnets, but public DNS servers are the only alternative in getting customers server-less and completely cloud-hosted.   Local DNS isn't as essential as DHCP, but makes local resources easier to manage on a client network - like printing. I've been able to use DNSmasq on other linux based routers/firewalls to accomplish this. It would be nice if Meraki integrated a simple local DNS server option.    Thank you! Justin ... View more

DHCP Reservations Import / Export for MS Switches and DHCP Reservations Exp...

by JustinBennett in Make-a-Wish (Feature Requests)
‎05-19-2022 11:37 AM
‎05-19-2022 11:37 AM
I know the MX already has an import feature for DHCP reservations, but import and export for both the MX and MS devices in the dashboard would make configuration changes and network builds so much easier. Having to create 200 reservations for a new subnet or in a recreated network after you move a device takes hours - even with automating the steps. Import / Export via simple CSV is an essential feature that is needed for any DHCP reservation sections on a DHCP Server. Essential.   Thank you! Justin ... View more

Re: "Dashboard throughput" email report

by JustinBennett in Security / SD-WAN
‎05-19-2022 11:32 AM
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‎05-19-2022 11:32 AM
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+1 for scheduling reports from the dashboard   @D4N13L You may want to put in a feature request on the reports page. It used to be called Make a Wish from what I've heard and seems like it's an area on this community - https://community.meraki.com/t5/Make-a-Wish-Feature-Requests/bd-p/go-make-a-wish ... View more
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Re: MS 425-16 integration with Fortinet

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