I voiced that solution and was shot down.

If I do a separate SSID, on the same VLAN as the Apple TV, I'd still have
to turn Multicast on on the controller, but I wouldn't have to roll out a
PIM-SM deployment.

Mike

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Hanset, Philippe C <phan...@utk.edu> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> For a one off and minimal investment, I would bring up an Open-WRT or DDRT
> AP (or any affordable AP that is capable of doing WPA2-enterprise)
> independent from your regular infrastructure and make people join a
> dedicated subnet for that room (use NAT, and WPA2-enterprise).
> Connect the Apple TV to the wired port of the AP and broadcast a dedicated
> SSID.
> With WPA2-enterprise joining your RADIUS server you can make it secure.
>
> It is a "dirty" solution, electromagnetically speaking, but quick.
>
> If the conference room has too may users for one AP, create a dedicated
> SSID just for that conference
> room on your existing infrastructure and terminate the VLAN of that SSID
> on the same VLAN as the AppleTV
>
> Philippe Hanset
> Univ. of TN
> www.eduroamus.org
>
> On Jul 3, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Mike King wrote:
>
> > So I have Cisco Wireless, and I've just been asked to make Airplay work
> in a conference room.  We do not have multicast enable (anywhere).
> >
> > Asking for details, I've been told it's only this one conference room.
> (I someone believe this, as it the only one that has a projector that get's
> any use)
> >
> > Suggestions for this as a "one off"?  I have idea's one what to do for a
> campus wide deployment, but that will take me significantly longer to
> deploy, and my boss is asking me to have this done this week.
> >
> > Right now, we have a single WPA2/enterprise SSID, and the apple TV will
> most likely be wired (not required)
> >
> > Mike
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