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I'm in a bit of a bind. We have an office with 10 APs under an Embedded Wireless Controller on AP1. To give some background, we set things up with more or less default settings when moving in three years ago and it worked well. I am just a simple rou...
We are preparing new Meraki APs to replace non-Meraki units in a building. Part of the process includes connecting the devices to the network so they receive the config from the dashboard, firmware updates, etc. After they show on-line in the dashboa...
Resolved! MR SSID assign Client ip
Hello Community,I have a question regarding MR SSID settings.In the MR SSID configuration, VLAN tagging is enabled, and the VLAN ID configured for VLAN tagging is the same as the device management VLAN.What I would like to understand is this:When the...
I have one AP 9136 for my lab which is stuck at boot and it looks like it's missing boot image.I have an image file ap1g6a-k9w8-tar.17_18_1_8.tar and tftp server but can't seem to find a procedure on how to load this file and boot from it. If you can...
Hi everyone,I'm running into a frustrating "black hole" Wi-Fi scenario during WAN outages and am looking for some advice or workarounds.The Environment:Meraki MR access points broadcasting a corporate SSID.Standard laptops configured to prefer the co...
Hello everybody.Can you tell me if the 9800 supports accounting without an IP address for the client. It works at 8540.
HelloI have a very strange problem as I said in the subject, I have flexconnect enabled and other all related settings enabled but still when controller is unreachable, the APs stop showing SSID and stop working. Controller is: Cisco Catalyst 9800-CL...
We have been running MR33's on our 30+ locations and range and performance had been good for many years. We have now replaced some sites with CW9172I's and had very bad issues with wireless range. Coverage in the same areas is significantly worse tha...
Resolved! Apple users lose authentication
Good morning, I have an SSID with:- Open security- Authentication with Splash Page and Sign-on with Radius (Azure)- External DHCP server for clients- Valid accounts are assigned for 30 daysI notice that with Windows and Android devices, the accounts ...
(Updated June 2026 for CW9177 models)Hi everyone,Over the years some people have asked if there's a type of "family tree" diagram showing how Meraki access points evolved through the generations (up to and including the current Wi-Fi 7 CW917x models)...
Hello, I've some issue on C9800 cluster HA when we test failover on C9400 stackwise. Often both WLc reloads. Each 9800 is connected on each C9400 members, connected by RP via L2 VLAN via C9400 (150 meters away). Configured with RP + RMI.
Can you have both a RADIUS and RADSEC server on a single SSID? Before enabling RADSEC RADIUS auth worked over UDP/1812 but after enabling RADSEC RADIUS auth switched to TCP/1812 for the non-radsec enabled server. I couldn't find mention of that in an...
We have 18 of these and we pulled one that was not in use and I was going to use this one to test a new image, but I am wanting to know if there is a way to do this on just one AP instead of updating the controller and having it push the update out t...
Resolved! License need to Join AP to 9800 WLC
Hi Community,I am currently using a Cisco 9800-L WLC in my network, where 7 Access Points are already joined and working fine. I would like to add 6 more APs to the same controller.Could you please confirm whether I need to purchase additional licens...
Resolved! Cisco WLC Anchor or ISE?
Hello, I am on the eve of implementation wireless security access network. I should make a decision to use wlc anchor or not. Basically the scenario is there should be 2 SSIDs, Corporate and Guest. We will definitely use ISE as access control. In thi...
