Mr. Palmer:

I am so, so sorry.  You are about to find out the pains of shoehorning Apple 
technology in to the enterprise.

My personal dislike for all things Apple goes very deep, but that aside, can I 
ask why the decision was made to go with Apple TVs?

Was it for AirPlay?  We use some programs here on our campus that enable us to 
stream to/from IOS devices and it works.

If I may give you a word of warning; I spent many, many man hours making 
AirPlay and other Apple technologies work on our network.  Instructors were 
clamoring for the ability to use thier iPads in class.  In less than a semester 
all but 2-3 instructors stopped using it.  Now if a single prof uses it a week 
I would be surprised.

It was a lot of work that required me to do some unholy things to my network 
that I still feel guilty about, all to make a few people able to use their 
shiny new toy.

Short version: VERY carefully evaluate the business decision of using Apple in 
the enterprise, in my 10+ years of experience it is almost always a matter of 
personal preference and/or a status symbol thing.

Regardless, I hope your implementation goes well. Good luck.

Jake Sallee
Godfather of Bandwidth
System Engineer
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

900 College St.
Belton, Texas
76513

Fone: 254-295-4658
Phax: 254-295-4221
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From: Tim DeNike [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 8:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] A Challenge - controlling mDNS and Bonjour

Ill just throw this out there.. mDNS/Bonjour is a bad idea and very flakey in 
any enterprise network.  It typically doesn't work well with IGMP and other 
multicast helpers.  It was never designed for it.

Otherwise... The feature you are looking for would be part of roles in packet 
fence.  I don't know if the aruba allows ACLs to be assigned via RADIUS or not 
though.


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Palmer, Tim 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
A fine afternoon to all,

I'm a happy 4.0.x user with an Aruba wireless network, at a private high 
school. We're looking at rolling out Apple Tvs next year in many classrooms, 
and will therefor need to control that  nasty mDNS/Bonjour traffic. We're 
looking for high granularity, more than just an mDNS reflector – the ability to 
basically specify that no user will see an AppleTV that's not near the AP they 
are connected to.

As far as I can tell, the only way to do this is with Aruba's Clearpass policy 
manager system, which costs a bit, and will mean moving off of our happy 
Packetfence system.

The Challenge: Has any one even done any serious thinking about how to 
accomplish this with Packetfence? Is there any chance it's even possible?

Thank you for your thoughts,

Tim Palmer


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