topic Re: Smartway/Bonjour Gateway Setup/Best Practices? in ZoneDirector

Smartway/Bonjour Gateway Setup/Best Practices?

tim_kamps — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:55:48 GMT

Are there any guides to setting up the Smartway/Bonjour Gateway? I am looking for tips or best practices for implementing this. I know the ZD needs to be on a "trunked" port, but what about the APs. Seems each switch manufacturer uses slightly different terminology.

Thanks!
Tim

Re: Smartway/Bonjour Gateway Setup/Best Practices?

keith_redfield — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:11:00 GMT

Hi Tim,

Here's an excerpt from a work-in-progress best practices guide that might help:

Setting the Stage
In order to make Bonjour devices available between broadcast domains the Ruckus
Smart Way Bonjour gateway creates a set of rules which are used to selectively proxy
service advertisements between VLANs. The following network configuration
requirements must be implemented:
• All VLANs must be configured and routed between separate subnets with DHCP
• All VLANs used by Bonjour Gateway must be visible to the Zone Director
• All VLANs which are mapped to WLANs must be visible to the APs
Once the network infrastructure is configured the Zone Director must be configured to
provide WLANs as follows:
• Create WLANs which are mapped to specific VLANs based on user roles
• Client Isolation must be disabled on the WLANs which will support Bonjour Services
• Multicast Filtering must be disabled for WLANs which will support Bonjour Services
At this point the network is configured and users in each domain should be able to
reach each other via IP. Devices advertising services on any particular VLAN should all
be able to see each other but not on any other VLANs.

Re: Smartway/Bonjour Gateway Setup/Best Practices?

wil_buchanan_65 — Mon, 05 May 2014 15:57:57 GMT

Keith,

This is good information - ideally, to be provided alongside the firmware update notes (it's not yet!)

An extremely related question, is which "service type" needs to be configured for Macs to print to a Windows shared printer on a different VLAN? Airprint and Apple File Sharing doesn't do it, and "other" has no description on how to configure.

Thanks,
Michael (work for Wil!)

Re: Smartway/Bonjour Gateway Setup/Best Practices?

keith_redfield — Mon, 05 May 2014 17:05:54 GMT

Let me prod the product manager on the docs. I believe we got a final version (finally!).

If that Windows printer isn't itself providing a Bonjour/mDNS service, our gateway won't help. I think Apple provides some sort of utility to set that up (Bonjour for Windows..) but that would have to be working first.

Lastly - with our new support portal, you don't need to share accounts. You can sign up for your own and then "linkup" with Will so that you both have the same permissions and access to cases, etc. You'll get presented those options after you sign in for the first time.

Re: Smartway/Bonjour Gateway Setup/Best Practices?

david_stiff_578 — Mon, 05 May 2014 21:46:55 GMT

Windows operating systems use network discovery mechanisms that do not use bonjour. Even though some of them use multicast or broadcast, they are not 'bonjour based'. This means our bonjour gateway can't help the Macs discover it across a router boundary.

Re: Smartway/Bonjour Gateway Setup/Best Practices?

keith_redfield — Mon, 05 May 2014 21:49:28 GMT

I *think* there's some trick of connecting a printer to an Apple Airport Express and then the Airport turns into a Bonjour print server (at least this article makes it sound that way... http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2006/11/b...

Re: Smartway/Bonjour Gateway Setup/Best Practices?

dtsblake_588878 — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 10:09:02 GMT

Do you have any similar best practices for Bonjour on the ZD and AP? I opened a case and tech could not find any in the documents they can access.

Re: Smartway/Bonjour Gateway Setup/Best Practices?

dtsblake_588878 — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 10:17:03 GMT

Did you "prod?"

Re: Smartway/Bonjour Gateway Setup/Best Practices?

monnat_systems — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:55:06 GMT

i know its NOT ruckus doc however can be a good starting point to know various nuts and bolts of Bonjour tech in general

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless/aironet-1100-series-access-point/113443-cuwn-appl...

http://a030f85c1e25003d7609-b98377aee968aad08453374eb1df3398.r40.cf2.rackcdn.com/feature-sheets/fs-s...