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Cisco Meraki
Basic Information
Release Year
Product Type Software, Hardware
In Production Yes
Official Website

Cisco Meraki is a company providing subscription-based cloud-managed hardware. Company was previously friendly to open-source.[1]

Consumer-impact summary

Locked down hardware (SecureBoot) since ~2018.[2][3] Hardware before 2018, or with SecureBoot exploits may be reflashable to OpenWRT.[1][4]

Creates tons of e-waste (e.g, on eBay).

Some models may brick if tampered with.[5]


Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

  • User freedom
  • User privacy
  • Business model
  • Market control

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Incidents

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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product line. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Cisco Meraki category.

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Products

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For the latest on OpenWrt device support, see OpenWrt's site.

MX Series

Product Series Products Launch Description Secure Boot? OpenWrt Support Link
MX60 2011-07-13 No Yes https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mx60
MX400 2012-01-18
MX600 2012-01-18
MX80 2012-01-18 Sort of Missing APM86290 support in mainline Linux https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-cisco-meraki-mx80/16572/32
MX90 2012-01-18
MX60W 2012-10-09
MX64 MX64, MX64W 2015-02-05
MX84 2015-11-10
MX65 MX65, MX65W 2016-02-12 No Yes
MX250 2017-09-12
MX450 2017-09-12
MX67 MX67, MX67W, MX67C 2018-08-28 Yes No
MX68 MX68, MX68, MX68CW 2018-08-28 Yes No https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cisco-meraki-mx68w/134895
MX100 Pre-2014 No Yes
MX105 Yes No https://forum.openwrt.org/t/meraki-mx105-lets-see-if-we-can-figure-this-out/170841/3
MX75
MX85 Yes No https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-meraki-mx85/207538
MX95

MR Series

Wireless access point devices

Product Description Launch/Announce Secure Boot? OpenWrt Support Notes Link
MR62 2011-08-23
MR66 2011-08-23
MR32 2014-12-09 Yes
MR72 2014-12-09
MR53 dual-band enterprise class 802.11ac Wave 2 cloud-managed access point. 2016-05-25 No No missing QSGMII support in dwmac-ipq806x driver https://forum.openwrt.org/t/adding-openwrt-support-for-meraki-mr53/67505/26
MR52 dual-band enterprise class 802.11ac Wave 2 cloud-managed access point. 2016-06-24 No Yes https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mr52
MR84 2016-09-13
MR30H 2016-12-06 Yes, dropped?
MR32 Yes but no wifi. Broadcom reference fw works tho https://forum.openwrt.org/t/flash-meraki-mr32-new-method/108365/11
MR33 2016-12-06 No Yes™ Bootloader may brick itself if tampered https://github.com/riptidewave93/LEDE-MR33/issues/13
MR74 dual-band enterprise class 802.11ac cloud-managed access point. 2017-03-08 Yes Soon™ https://github.com/riptidewave93/LEDE-MR33/issues/13#issuecomment-3267672239
MR20 dual-band enterprise class 802.11ac cloud-managed access point. 2018-01-29
MR70 2018-01-29
MR42E 2018-02-01
MR53E 2018-02-01
MR12 No Yes
MR16 No Yes
MR18 No Yes https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mr18
MR24 Yes
MR26 No
MR28 dual-band enterprise Wi-Fi 6 cloud-managed access point.
MR34 No No Unsupported broadcom wireless https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mr34
MR42 No Yes https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mr42
MR44 Yes https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-support-for-meraki-mr44/117409
MR46 Yes https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-support-for-meraki-mr46/143499/21

See also

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://watchmysys.com/blog/2024/04/breaking-secure-boot-on-the-meraki-z3-and-meraki-go-gx20/
  2. ↑ https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cisco-meraki-mx68w/134895
  3. ↑ https://github.com/halmartin/meraki-builder/issues/11#issuecomment-751338881
  4. ↑ https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/start
  5. ↑ https://github.com/riptidewave93/LEDE-MR33/issues/13
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