Good day folks, my company recently gave me some hardware, one in particular I’m curious if there are any real use cases for it. I’m not particularly well with networking. This device is a Cisco Meraki MX64. I saw it doesn’t support open WRT so I’m curious if there are any other known projects or alternative software that could run on it. I’d love to toss it in with my network stack but all I have now is just a switch that it’ll plug in to but would love to replace e switch with it.
Meraki is cloud controlled, so without that connection or licence you can only use the config that was on it prior to the disconnect if I remember right.
Ah that is unfortunate. I appreciate the insight on it. I’ll just take it up to microcenter one of these days to recycle it.
Best buy also takes ewaste also. Just tell them its for ewaste and they will let yoy know where to take it.
Meraki is just e-waste without it’s (really expensive) license. I’ve seen cheaper licences floating around on sketchy websites but wouldn’t recommend it.
Those licenses are really poorly priced that’s unfortunate since they seem to be really neat devices do work with VLans for
They are excellent in my experience. Very easy to work with. Had a bad batch of APs that all died on me but that was almost a decade ago and the replacements were just fine. Used a couple of sample devices I got from Meraki (they gave them out for participating in their seminars) and used them until the 2 year license ran out. Now I’m mostly using Mikrotik with RouterOS at home. Way more advanced but also more fun to mess around with.
