Welcome to the Cisco Community Ask Me Anything conversation. Submit your questions from Monday, February 2, 2026, through Friday, February 20, 2026. Our colleagues Amruta Navadagi, Anaya Kalawat, and Mohammad Mehtabuddin will be waiting to assist you...
Hello community,I am reviewing a Meraki Dashboard-managed switching design with two Catalyst 9300 switches at the distribution layer and several Meraki MS130 switches at the access layer.The customer requirement is to achieve VLAN-based load distribu...
I have a Catalyst 2955 that has ignored all my attempts to interrupt autoboot with the Break sequence. I have tried PuTTY, TeraTeSwitching, Catalyst 2000, Other Switchesrm, and HyperTerminal, pressing Break, Ctrl-Break, Ctrl-B, -C, and spacebar at 3...
This week I finally got a maintenance window to be able to upgrade one of our pairs of C9500-12X pairs to a version supported by the Meraki dashboard.The ISSU upgrade (from the CLI) worked perfectly from 17.9.5 to 17.15.4 and took about 35 minutes.St...
I used to be able to do a "show arp vrf all | inc x.x.x.x in the 9000 series routers. We recently switched over to 8500 series. It appears I can't do that command. Is there a work around?
Im trying to figure out if a C9K switch running configuration source cloud would support dACL from ISE ?I mean.... in theory, with it running native IOS-XE it should, but do anyone have a clear answer if it does, and or, if it is a "supported feature...
So IOS XE 17.18.2 is now listed as the latest stable release for Catalyst switches in the firmware upgrade portal on Meraki dashboard. What's odd is that the older 17.15.4.1 is listed as a stable release candidate. I'd love to understand if 17.18.2 i...
Does anyone know of an on-line calculator which can be used to predict which member of an LACP channel will carry the packet, given source / destination MAC address (or IP address or TCP port)?I've found tutorials on how to perform the XOR/modulo cal...
Hi All, Good day all. Just want to ask help for inputs on below. Query from client. I don't much experience with ISE and dot1x. Any inputs would be appreciateClient Queryhave started to implement 802.1x Wired for VOIP in our environment using Cisco I...
Hello, our 9200 switches with code 17.9.4a receives dacl from ise and authorize clients successfully. Based on the complaints (endpoint can access to destinations that they shouldn’t as destinations not allowed in DACL) we started to see if anything ...
the upgrade of my standalone 3850 from iosxe 16.12.13 to 16.12.15 was going ok (install add file flash:cat3k_caa-universalk9.16.12.15.SPA.bin activate commit) until my finger slipped at the 'This operation may require a reload of the system. Do you w...
Hello everyone i see logs on the switch.%SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 395648 bytes failed from 0x1AE504, alignment%Error on initialize VLAN database 1: VTP feature not yet initialized[OK]googled this issue, found memory is low, how to solv ...
Hi, I currently have a Cisco 9200 switch that does not have a stackwise module at the back. This switch is currently powered on and I am wondering if I can just leave it running and install a stackwise module? Once I added the stackwise module at the...
There is an odd problem on the core switch right now, its a C9500-48Y4C running IOS XE 17.09.03 Core-Switch#show logging | inc flapping%SW_MATM-4-MACFLAP_NOTIF: Host 0026.fc2a.0000 in vlan 1259 is flapping between port Po49 and port Po51%SW_MATM-4...
Hi Experts,I am relatively new to the Meraki ecosystem and recently started working on a project involving Meraki deployment. My background is primarily with traditional Cisco networking and SD-based architectures, so this has been an interesting tra...
Hi Community,Could you provide me with some information about the fan issue with MSx-series switches? We have started receiving fan failure alerts on Meraki S410 switches running this firmware version 17.2.1Thank you.
