I'm sure it is using Apple's Bonjour protocol which relies on
multicasting to work on the local network. We've discussed this
internally but have decided not to enable multicast on wireless yet.
For a deep dive, consider the following book:
Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide
Did you mean this mothership?
http://www.gizmag.com/apple-spaceship-campus/19549/
Pete M.
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We have it enabled with no issues.
The only concerns we have is security with inter device communication
like Itunes libraries and other shares being visible. Not everyone
secures their stuff with a password, so there is some user education to
go with it.
plus there's wide area bonjour if
Or, you could simply support multicast on your WLAN. We do, and it allows all
of these fun MDNS items to work on our "real network." ;)
Jeff
>>> On Monday, October 10, 2011 at 3:07 PM, in message
>>> <943da0e70434ca499ad0088fb90eaade04b...@suex10-mbx-05.ad.syr.edu>, Lee H
>>> Badman wrote:
Where is the "like" button for this comment?
Kenneth V. Mattson III
Director - Network and Data
DoIT
Creighton University
402-280-2743
402-981-1140
A password is like a toothbrush:
Choose a good one, change it regularly and don't share it.
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Or you could ask your Apple rep to remind the mothership that their toys
occasionally find their ways to real networks...
Oops, did I say that out loud?
Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer, ITS
Adjunct Instructor, iSchool
Syracuse University
315.443.3003
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You could enable multicast on the controller only. Generally, APs in the same
building should reside on the same controller. This would allow the devices to
discover each other via MDNS port 5353. Once the discovery takes place all
other traffic is unicast TCP.
James Nesbitt
Networking Spec
I can see only two other options...
1. You get or force , if possible, both devices on the same vlan/network
broadcast domain.
2. Setup an adhoc network for the task.
Ken Connell
Intermediate Network Engineer
Computer & Communication Services
Ryerson University
350 Victoria St
RM AB50
To
I think you can do it over bluetooth instead of wifi. You *may* have to
turn off wifi on the devices temporarily first. I haven't tried it yet
myself but I seem to recall a blurb about it somewhere.
B.
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Brandon Abell
Library Technical Specialist for Instructional Support
Pacific McGeorge Sc
As far as I've ever found, without multicast it wont work. Those apps just
aren't made for the enterprise. Our campus WLANs don't have multicast and so
most of the iPhone "find it" style apps don't work here. We did notice that the
test SSID that has IPv6 enabled does allow the multicast based
I have a professor trying to use their iPod to remotely control their iPad in
the classroom. It works fine on a test Netgear wireless router I have for
testing. However it does not work on any of the WLANs I have configured for
campus use. Doing a little research, it appears that this applica
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