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Some features start on a roadmap. Others start with a recurring customer request: Can LightMesh connect to Meraki? That request kept coming up. Now the answer is yes. LightMesh supports Meraki sites with multiple VLANs or a single LAN through the new cloud integration for Cisco Meraki. Appliance addressing from Dashboard syncs into LightMesh as subnets (with VLAN ID when Meraki provides one), and device or client LAN IPs only when they fall inside those CIDRs.

Your DHCP server knows which addresses it assigned. It does not know which of those addresses are answering on the wire right now. That gap shows up in every hybrid network where static devices, reservations, and stale leases sit beside active workloads. Leased and live are different questions. DHCP scopes answer the first. Subnet ping-sweep answers the second. Together they give IPAM fresher last-seen context without handing an NMS credentials across the network.