Best Practice for Ruckus Unleashed Bonjour Gateway

matthewlampe — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:20:46 GMT

Hi everyone,
I’m setting up the Bonjour Gateway feature on Ruckus Unleashed and want to make sure the VLAN configuration is correct so I don’t cause duplicate printers, loops, or multicast flooding.
My setup:
Dedicated Unleashed AP acting as the Bonjour Gateway
AP is using its default untagged management, which corresponds to VLAN 5 on the switch
Printers also live on VLAN 5 (AirPrint-enabled HP LaserJet units)
Wireless clients (iPhones/iPads) are on VLAN 15
Goal: Allow users on VLAN 15 to discover printers on VLAN 5 using AirPrint
Current Bonjour Gateway rule:
AirPrint: From VLAN 5 → To VLAN 15
Questions:
1️⃣Should I also configure the reverse direction?
Example:
AirPrint: From VLAN 15 → To VLAN 5

Or would that create a Bonjour/mDNS loop, causing duplicate printers and excess multicast traffic?
My understanding is that AirPrint only needs to flow from the printer VLAN to the client VLAN, not in both directions — but I’d like confirmation from others with Unleashed experience.
2️⃣Should the Unleashed Bonjour rule use VLAN 1 or VLAN 5?
Even though the AP is managed on VLAN 5 (untagged), I’ve seen documentation and forum posts saying you sometimes need to select VLAN 1 inside the Unleashed UI because Unleashed internally treats the untagged/native VLAN as “1” unless otherwise overridden.
So which is the correct “From VLAN” value in this situation?
Printers physically on VLAN 5
AP management/native VLAN is also VLAN 5
Switch trunk native VLAN = 5
Should the Bonjour rule be:
From VLAN 5 → To VLAN 15

or
From VLAN 1 → To VLAN 15

depending on Unleashed's internal VLAN handling?
I want to be sure I’m not accidentally choosing the wrong VLAN in the GUI, especially since Bonjour behavior is sensitive to VLAN mismatches.

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Best Practice for Ruckus Unleashed Bonjour Gateway