aerohive has built in a bonjour gateway. it's baked right into their o s. if you trunk all of your wireless vlans to it you can do selective filtering and redistribution. since it's built into the o s you can get it with any of their base units, just turn off the wireless interface On Jul 4, 2012 2:49 PM, "Frank Bulk" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, I'm confused. If you turn the AP's radios off, how do the wireless > clients participate in Airplay? > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Colleen Szymanik > Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 6:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] You knew it was coming...Airplay/Apple TV > support for instructors. > > We are up against the same issues. I've been playing around with Aerohive > APs to get the small "one off" solutions for a few classrooms around > campus. > We decided to use 2 APs per classroom and turn off the radios. One AP > lives > on the wired segment to propagate the AppleTV to the wireless vlan where > the > other AP lives (radios are turned off). So, basically we just use the > bonjour gateway functionality. We are still figuring out scalability > issues, but for a few situations, this might get us by for a little while. > We are also on the list to test AirGroup from Aruba as soon as we can get > our hands on it. > > On Jul 3, 2012, at 10:07 PM, "James Andrewartha" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 04/07/12 05:48, Kellogg, Brian D. wrote: > >> I did and it was less productive than spitting into the wind. They > really don't care and have the attitude that the consumer demand will > dictate others find solutions to their protocol deficiencies. At least > that > was my impression. It still befuddles me you just can't plug in a FQDN or > IP address for Airplay to connect to. > > > > What's worse is when you start having tens or hundreds of these devices > > on the network - it'd be very easy to fat-finger and Airplay to the > > wrong one. Thinking about wide-area DNS-SD, you could perhaps use DHCP > > option 82 to publish subdomains for DNS-SD that only publishes Apple TVs > > in the building of that AP or switch. I've no idea how you'd manage that > > sort of mapping though, doing it manually is out of the question, is > > there any software to manage that sort of thing? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > James Andrewartha > > Network & Projects Engineer > > Christ Church Grammar School > > Claremont, Western Australia > > Ph. (08) 9442 1757 > > Mob. 0424 160 877 > > > > ********** > > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
