Silly Meraki Tricks: LAN Hairpin NAT (Sort of)

Working with Meraki these last two years has led me to discover a few oddities in the way things work. Often, these silly little tricks can be used to solve problems, but they also may lead to unintuitive configs. Either way, I don't understand why I haven't posted them here before. You will likely find anything that I post under this moniker something I've already posted about over at the Meraki Community, and I will link over to the full conversation where there is one.

For my first Silly Meraki Trick I will show you how to get a NAT translation for LAN to LAN traffic on an MX appliance.

Action Batches in the Meraki Dashboard API

Just announced at Cisco Live '19 on this past Thursday is a new Meraki Dashboard API feature called Action Batches. This was announced during BRKRST-1733 on Thursday morning with Tony Carmichael and Shiyue (Shay) Cheng, two of Meraki's finest when it comes to their API. There's been some talk that this feature was coming, and I was very interested to see what the initial implementation was going to look like. Well, now that it's here we can take a look!

Meraki MR12 Initial Setup and First Thoughts

I managed to get myself a Meraki MR12 access point after attending one of their webinars simply because I am an IT professional.  For free.  Pretty good deal eh?

http://meraki.cisco.com/lp/free-demo

Since I have a blog I thought I'd post up some thoughts on the MR12, and Meraki in general.  In the interests of full disclosure I do work for a Meraki partner, though to date I'm not aware of any deals we've completed.  And of course, they gave me this AP for attending their webinar.