Hello Jason, We also use Cisco. Like you we found the bonjour gateway features worked, but did not provide location control. In some cases our academics have multiple AppleTV's in the one location and don't mind that they are all available.
In other locations, they only want to see the local Apple TV, so we have an ssid advertised with a name like ATV-P512 to let them know this is the apple tv for Building P room 512. This is a bit of a pain as we also have to create an ap-group for each apple tv. We are using 802.1x and found that if the ATV is powered off, it does not store the time and has issues accepting a certificate. For this reason we connect the AppleTV using the wired port, on the same vlan that the ssid terminates on. We actually had to turn off the bonjour gateway feature for these networks to achieve our goal. While this is not an ideal solution, it achieves the outcome we require. Peter. Peter Arbouin | Network Engineer IT Networks | Information Technology Services Queensland University of Technology Level 3 | 88 Musk Avenue | Kelvin Grove Campus Mob: 0402476892 | Ph: +61 7 3138 1030 Email: [email protected]<BLOCKED::mailto:[email protected]> CRICOS No. 00213J From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Cook Sent: Monday, 27 May 2013 12:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Controlling Bonjour Zones Hi, We have Cisco wireless and are currently dev'ing up the bonjour gateway service release in 7.4. I know other vendors have similar workaround features and am interested see how people have gone with it, keen to hear from users of other vendors as well. So far it all seems to work as advertised, was pretty easy setup with good control over what services you advertise. However I find there to be a lack of location control, and would like to know if anyone has implemented ways to control the location where the advertisements go. For something like this we'd like to restrict the advertisements to location by building/level/room/AP, it will help it scale better for users devices when scrolling through the list of available devices to connect to like an Apple TV. Users in building 1 don't need to see an Apple TV in a meeting room in building 2. Using separate SSID's is also not really a scalable solution... though does work of course with a dedicated subnet and multicast enabled. We currently don't have building based networks, which would be one way to control advertisements. This is something we are planning, but are a while off yet, also the ability to go more granular than just buildings would be useful. I've started a conversation with our local Cisco office, but am interested see what others may have done or believe could be useful for this. Regards Jason -- Jason Cook Technology Services The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 Ph : +61 8 8313 4800 e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information which may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please do not read, save, forward, disclose, or copy the contents of this email. If this email has been sent to you in error, please notify the sender by reply email and delete this email and any copies or links to this email completely and immediately from your system. No representation is made that this email is free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. ********** 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/.
