Best Practice for Ruckus Unleashed Bonjour Gateway

[matthewlampe]

• 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.