Hello, just checking for any insight on this topic I recently started to deploy Meraki MS series switches to all of our networks. Some are manufacturing facilities. Our testing went great and our pilot deployments went without issues. However as we roll it out to some more complicated manufacturing facilities, we've now seen a few issues that we'd like to fully evaluate before continuing. Some community feedback would help. In a recent deployment, some industrial switches were not able to get connectivity via the Meraki MS225 switches. The industrial switch was not managed by my team so we didn't have general management access, and this was a remote deployment so we weren't able to fully troubleshoot this on site. However, working through any possible layer 1 and layer 2 issues didn't resolve the issue. Port was forwarding, learning MACs, but no traffic was passing. A temporary workaround was to add in one of our older Cisco native switches to reconnect the device. Patched into that, it worked perfectly fine. Adding to this we've noticed a few other devices that didn't regain connectivity after migrating to these switches, which struck us as odd. Another note is that we're getting the feeling that these switches are much more... "sensitive?" to faulty cabling than the cisco native equipment we were previously using. The amount of client-side cabling we're having to replace because of issues after migrating switches in the cabinets (and not touching anything client-side) is surprising. We like the visibility and the opportunity to resolve the issues, but we're left somewhat curious about this. So my question is, has anyone else encountered any compatibility issues with these switches? Any similar notes on sensitivity to cabling issues? Any other odd switching behavior? Any insight would be appreciated.
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