Cisco Meraki has introduced beta BGP support in their Meraki MX appliances. According to product documentation, the latest version of Meraki code now supports BGP (IBGP and EBGP) — the caveat, you’ll need to contact your Meraki Sales Rep or Support to enable the features.
If you’re interested in implementing BGP in your existing Meraki environment, you’ll want to read the documentation carefully. It appears that you must run IBGP in the Meraki Site-to-Site VPN in order to redistribute routes via EBGP.
It’s unclear if you can limit redistribution with route filters or influence upstream routes with BGP communities.
BGP support will allow you to eliminate the need for static routes into a Meraki environment. BGP will also help improve data center redundancy and failover. However, many of the features we’ve come to love (or hate) with BGP appear to be absent.
Check out the product documentation for yourself:
https://documentation.meraki.com/MX-Z/Networks_and_Routing/BGP
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