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Configuring Usable IPs

Bacon
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Received new fiber circuit from AT&T and they gave us 5 usable IPs; in the past those usable IPs were WAN IPs, but this time around they are LAN IPs. The whole purpose of the additional IPs was in preparation for implementing MX95's in HA Failover using the shared VIP method for seamless failover. Now that I have received my gear and am preparing, I have zero place to configure these LAN IPs and am thinking they gave (or we asked for) the wrong thing. Anyone else had this experience? Did we get the wrong 'usable IPs'? Or am I missing an area to configure the interface inside Meraki? Appreciate any help.

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Hello,

I agree with @Flavio Miranda , it is not really clear what you mean by 'usable IP's'. Which IP addresses did you get (change just the last octet, so the real IP addresses do not show up here on the forum. E.g. if you got 178.178.12.12/29, change the address you post to 178.178.12.255/29)...

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Hello,

 First off, let's try to agree in some terminology here. Any IP address is usable. And no one here is able to say if the IP is wrong or not without see your Ip address mapping or checking your devices. 

 What you are calling "Usable IP address", I am assuming you want to say Public IP address:

"A public IP address is an IPv4 address that is reachable from the internet. If a resource in your tenancy needs to be directly reachable from the internet, it must have a public IP address."

 There's no such thing as "Lan IPs".  Any IP can be used in the LAN or WAN, it all depends how the topology is built. I am assuming that when you say LAN IPs you want to say Private IP address:

  • 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255 (65,536 IP addresses)
  • 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255 (1,048,576 IP addresses)
  • 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255 (16,777,216 IP addresses)

    https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1918 

 

  If your Meraki solution need to be reached from the Internet directly, you  need Public IP address. If the Meraki solution needs to be reached from your local network, you dont need public IP address and you can use Private IP address. 

 

 

 

 

Hello,

I agree with @Flavio Miranda , it is not really clear what you mean by 'usable IP's'. Which IP addresses did you get (change just the last octet, so the real IP addresses do not show up here on the forum. E.g. if you got 178.178.12.12/29, change the address you post to 178.178.12.255/29)...