Meraki cloud AP basic configuration

Finally I received my free Meraki AP (MR18), after participating in one hour webinar (https://meraki.cisco.com/webinars), and now it’s time to make the initial configuration and connect it to my network.

if you have firewall on the network you should open the M-Tunnel ports to allow the AP to connect to the cloud (follow this post: http://www.madari.co.il/2014/06/cisco-zbfw-policy-for-meraki-m-tunnel.html)

 

Then connect the AP to the switch port and set the port configuration to trunk mode:

interface FastEthernet1  description MERAKI_MR18  switchport mode trunk  no ip address  load-interval 30

Now configure the AP IP address (static or dynamic): 

And configure the SSID's - I have 2 SSID’s, one for my LAN and one for guests, which need to be tied to two VLAN’s, 1 and 10, accordingly. My LAN segment is 192.168.10.0/24

The SSID configuration for the LAN:

 

Note that no VLAN tagging is done on this SSID, as this is the network where the AP connects to Meraki cloud.

And the SSID for the guests:

 

Note that both SSID’s are bridging traffic into the assigned VLAN.