Wireless Lan members, We use Aruba Networks for our wireless solution and we do have many L2 devices working that leverage Bonjour, etc. We simply do mac address authentication for them. Most L2 devices work fine. My big goal is to find out the different methods that some of you might be using to support the most difficult L2 devices such as Chromecast, Sonos speakers, and other L2 devices that need to peer with another device in order to work. These type of devices ultimately need to broadcast to see each other. Chromecast generally needs to broadcast to the phone app so that the phone app can see it and establish a connection with one another. If you create another SSID for it, what are the key factors in making it work?
Back in the earlier Fall, a number of you stated that you were using /16 subnets or very large subnets so that you only needed one subnet for your residential wireless network. So the question I have is did you do this to better support L2 devices? If so, do you allow broadcasts on your large wireless subnet or did you simply do one /16 subnet to simplify the administration of your wireless network? Bottom line, how are some of you supporting L2 devices that allow Chromecast and other peering L2 devices to work? Tim Tyler Network Engineer Beloit College ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
