Bonjour Gateway

Bonjour Gateway policies enable APs to provide Bonjour services across VLANs.

The controller's Bonjour gateway feature provides an mDNS proxy service configurable from the web interface to allow administrators to specify which types of Bonjour services can be accessed from/to which VLANs.

In order for the Bonjour Gateway to function, the following network configuration requirements must be met:

  • The target networks must be segmented into VLANs.
  • VLANs must be mapped to different SSIDs.
  • The controller must be connected to a VLAN trunk port.

Additionally, if the VLANs to be bridged by the gateway are on separate subnets, the network has to be configured to route traffic between them.

The following requirements and limitations should be taken into consideration before enabling the Bonjour Gateway feature:

  • Bonjour policy deployment to an AP takes effect after the AP joins the controller.
  • Some APs of one local area link must be in one subnet. The switch interfaces connected to these APs must be configured in VLAN-trunk mode. Only by doing so can the designated AP receive all the multicast Bonjour protocol packets from other VLANs.
  • Dynamic VLANs are not supported.
  • Some AP models are incompatible with this feature due to memory requirements.
Parent topic: Bonjour