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Meraki has captured my fancy lately. Expensive but a pretty great value prop.
by imwillofficial 6y ago
Meraki has captured my fancy lately. Expensive but a pretty great value prop.
- posguy 6y agoI support two Meraki MX64 routers, they are definitely expensive and have repeatedly caused issues for my clients when their ISPs force an upgrade of the associated modem. Not sure what shenanigans Cisco has done with Meraki, but I have wasted hours with them on the phone trying to get these MX64's to DHCP from a new cable modem. Ended up swapping in an Archer C7 on OpenWRT with a LTE modem to ensure business continuity for the client while working with Meraki's abysmal support to get their router to work correctly.
- lucb1e 6y agoFrankly, all we needed was a switch where you can add VLAN tags and send them to a trunk port. And I suppose a password on the "I would like this VLAN on this port, please" interface is also necessary, but I think that already concludes the grand list of requirements. Everything else we control on the router. It doesn't have to be network equipment in the traditional sense: any old linux server will do, it's just that it needs to have a couple dozen network ports. Traffic can be limited to a gigabit per second between all the ports combined (no need for multi-gigabit backplanes or switch fabrics or what the correct term for that is). I'd almost buy a big USB hub and connect USB–Ethernet adapters, but that feels more hacky than core infrastructure is supposed to be.