On Thu Mar 14, 2019 at 04:19:04PM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: > Apple's Bonjour protocols include something called Apple Bonjour Sleep Proxy > for Wake on Demand --- When a device goes to sleep, the Proxy that runs on > various Apple devices is supposed to seize all the IP and MAC addresses that > device had registered, so it can wait for an incoming TCP SYN, (and if one's > received, then signal the sleeping device to wake up and process the > connection.)
That's a very interesting observation - when we talk to the users of the Apple devices, they quite often say that the device was 'asleep' when it was sending these 'spoofed' ARP responses. > (Or perhaps they wanted to have a feature to let someone AirPlay from a > different VLAN than another device?) Cisco Wireless does claim to have some features to 'help' Bonjour / mDNS to work better. I wonder if one of those features is misbehaving. Simon
