We are up against the same issues. I've been playing around with Aerohive APs to get the small "one off" solutions for a few classrooms around campus. We decided to use 2 APs per classroom and turn off the radios. One AP lives on the wired segment to propagate the AppleTV to the wireless vlan where the other AP lives (radios are turned off). So, basically we just use the bonjour gateway functionality. We are still figuring out scalability issues, but for a few situations, this might get us by for a little while. We are also on the list to test AirGroup from Aruba as soon as we can get our hands on it.
On Jul 3, 2012, at 10:07 PM, "James Andrewartha" <jandrewar...@ccgs.wa.edu.au> wrote: > On 04/07/12 05:48, Kellogg, Brian D. wrote: >> I did and it was less productive than spitting into the wind. They really >> don't care and have the attitude that the consumer demand will dictate >> others find solutions to their protocol deficiencies. At least that was my >> impression. It still befuddles me you just can't plug in a FQDN or IP >> address for Airplay to connect to. > > What's worse is when you start having tens or hundreds of these devices > on the network - it'd be very easy to fat-finger and Airplay to the > wrong one. Thinking about wide-area DNS-SD, you could perhaps use DHCP > option 82 to publish subdomains for DNS-SD that only publishes Apple TVs > in the building of that AP or switch. I've no idea how you'd manage that > sort of mapping though, doing it manually is out of the question, is > there any software to manage that sort of thing? > > Thanks, > > -- > James Andrewartha > Network & Projects Engineer > Christ Church Grammar School > Claremont, Western Australia > Ph. (08) 9442 1757 > Mob. 0424 160 877 > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
