I was also under the impression that you could control advertisements to AP 
locations like buildings, floors and rooms. So you could ensure only users in 
Building A could see devices like Apple TV's in building A.

We are also holding off on 7.5 at this stage. While we are keen to use some of 
the new features, we still only have a handful on Apple TV's (under 5 that we 
know of) and workaround solutions are doing the job there. We have been 
working with TAC to iron out a few issues with Prime, and at least for our 
case the recommendation was to only upgrade to PI 1.4 and Controller 7.5 if 
the 7.5 features were required on our network. So while 7.5 is of interest, we 
don't quite have the business driver that makes it a must. Getting Prime up to 
scratch is more important to us at this stage, and hopefully 2.0 will provide 
that. Though I can' t say I'm filled with confidence.

It's a shame really, we have had plenty of issues with WCS/NCS/Prime for 
management. Very little to complain about for the controllers and APs 
though....... having said that we see one weirdness which I'll post separately 
soon.



--
Jason Cook
Technology Services
The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005
Ph    : +61 8 8313 4800


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis Xu
Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013 3:41 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco 7.5.102.0 and AppleTVs

I think the major mdns enhancement on 7.5 is that AP can forward mdns 
advertisements from wired side to controller. So wireless client can see Apple 
TV on wired as long as it is on the same vlan with the AP.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/release/notes/crn75.html#wp784178

"In Release 7.4, the controller could learn the mDNS services that are visible 
only on the network. In this release, the mDNS AP feature allows the 
controller to have visibility of wired service providers, which are on VLANs 
that are not visible to the controller. You can configure any AP as an mDNS AP 
to allow the AP to forward mDNS packets to the controller. VLAN visibility at 
the controller is achieved by APs that forward the mDNS advertisements to the 
controller. The mDNS packets between the AP and the controller are forwarded 
through a CAPWAP data tunnel that is similar to mDNS packets from a wireless 
client. Only CAPWAP v4 tunnels are supported. APs can be in either access port 
or the trunk port to learn the mDNS packets from the wired side and forward 
them to the controller."


Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Coloccia, Jr." <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:22:58 AM
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cisco 7.5.102.0 and AppleTVs


I went to Cisco Live! this summer, the conversation there was "mDNS is in 7.4, 
use that to solve the AppleTV problems, avoid 7.5 for now."

Has something changed? I've got mDNS working in 7.4... What am I missing?

-RIck
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