Critical software for cisco centric enterprises but there is. Cisco wlc, bonjour and airplay my experience packet6. From gui, navigate to controller mdns mdns domain name ip summary as shown in the image. In this document, the cisco systems 5508 wireless lan controller is referred to as controller, wlc, or the module. Cisco 5508 wireless controller network management device. The wlc will snoop all bonjour discovery packets and will not forward the same. This helps you to deploy appletv, apple printers on different subnets to where wireless client sits. Software that helped me was mdns browser, airparrot, and. Bonjour gateway wireless lan controller deployment guide, release 7. Depending on your needs for bonjour, youll either add or remove services. Lss filtering will not be applicable to wired services and the services learnt from mdns ap which are essentially wired services. Unable to pass traffic on a centrally switched wlan with. Using mdns snooping for bonjour support long story short.
Unable to pass traffic on a centrally switched wlan with cisco wlc 5508 9 posts. Due to the fact that the apple tv is wired, it will be. I think i have it set up correctly but wanted to run it by you guys to see if im missing a setting somewhere. What this means is that the advertisements,by spec, will not cross a subnet boundary. To that end, i took special note of a feature introduced in ciscos latest software release v7.
Our communications department used to program motorola radios ota via their motorola software. Mar 04, 20 cisco 5508 client isolation and the bonjour gateway on wlc 7. Wlc caches bonjour services apple tv advertisement. Cisco 5508 wireless controller use both internal and. I will however need to configure multicast on the wlc and make a decision about whether to forward as unicast or multicast. Jan 26, 20 cisco wireless lan controllers wlc perform multicast in two methods. We just got our 5508 wlc installed and have started turning up. Cscvg64993 wlc mdns secure printer service response missing txt record with mdns snooping enabled. What is the differences between standard and ha versions. Bonjour mdns, airplay, airprint, screen mirroring and cisco. Cisco 5508 wlc software upgrade and initial configuration. Troubleshoot and understand mdns gateway on wireless.
Without this feature all devices should be in same subnet perfectly work with home environment as of single. This article covers the wireless network only and requires multicast to be functional on your wired network. There are basic four steps which take place when mdns runs on a cisco wlc. The awardwinning cisco channel partner programs offer solutions, training, tools. Find answers to unable to connect to management gui cisco 5508 wlc from the expert community at experts exchange. Wlc 5508 ios upgrade in ha mode i am having 2 wlc 5508 in ha mode, and want to upgrade ios from 7. Cisco 5508 client isolation and the bonjour gateway on. This lists the domain names apple tv, airprinters of the services that have been cached by the wlc. The mdns snooping functionality on cisco wireless lan controller wlc.
If you use a custom mdns profile ensure that all the required services are added to it. Am i right that i dont need to buy ap licenses for ha version. Bonjour service advertisements, including those sent from apple tvs, have a destination address of linklocal multicast 224. For the above comparison of cisco 2504 vs cisco 5508, techpillar has taken utmost care in gathering accurate information about specs, features, licensing, warranty etc, however, techpillar cannot be held.
To determine the wlc version that is running in a given environment, use one of the following methods. Only when i completely disable dhcp proxy it went through and wlan client can get ip address. Cisco wireless lan controller with sonos sonos community. Nov 29, 2017 mdns profile name default mdns profile. This mode is inefficient, but if your network does not support multicast, this is the only mode you can use. Cisco 5508 wlc setup and initial configuration xerunetworks.
Following are some pictures of the device and then we start with initial configuration and software upgrade. With 3rd party software i was able to use my windows 8 laptop to airplay my screen to. In this article i will describe how to setup a cisco wlc 5508 to work with apples bonjour protocol across vlans. I have one cisco wlc 5508 with 40 access points and i need to implement ha. What is the best way to monitor individual aps on an cisco 5508 wlc. As the traffic is all taking place inside the same subnet, i shouldnt need to configure mdns snooping on the wlc.
This post details how to do initial cisco 5508 wlc setup and in the next post it goes into more detailed steps of configuring wlans. Depending on your needs for bonjour, youll either add or remove servic. Mitigation information for the vulnerability described in this advisory is available in the companion applied mitigation bulletin amb at the following location. I will also discuss using screen mirroring and airplay on an appletv v3. Bonjour mdns, airplay, airprint, screen mirroring and. Cisco wireless recommend software version for wlc 5508 jun 5, 20. Identifying and mitigating exploitation of multiple vulnerabilities in cisco wireless lan controllers. Bonjour gateway wireless lan controller deployment guide.
This item cisco 5508 series wireless controller for up to 12 aps cisco airct550850k9 cisco airct550850k9 5500 series wireless controller for up to 50 cisco access points b00chxmvdc cisco aironet 3602i series access point aircap3602iak9 dualband radios 2. Nov 30, 2016 i have about a half dozen cisco 1600 access points connecting back to a 2504 wlc and i am turning on global multicast mode. Aps are in mdns mode and snooping the vlan the pcs reside in. For the above comparison of cisco 5508 vs cisco 5520, techpillar has taken utmost care in gathering accurate information about specs, features, licensing, warranty etc, however, techpillar cannot be held liable for any direct or indirect damageloss. Aug 11, 2015 find answers to unable to connect to management gui cisco 5508 wlc from the expert community at experts exchange. On the left pane, expand mdns and click on general. One controller is at site a and the other controller is at site b two different states. Settings wise, we have been unable to find a difference in the wlan and interface settings. This stopped working after we mirgated from a cisco wlc 5508 running 8. We will also look at mdns snooping feature to expand bonjour service area even further by having ap perform mdns detection.
How to configure cisco wlc mdns and bonjour gateway part 2. We have a cisco 5508, and about 20 branch offices around the country. Select the mdns profile as the default mdns profile to allow the bonjour services that you require to be advertised on a particular wlan. This is due to apple has change how bonjour service work in their latest software releases. What is the best way to monitor individual aps on an cisco.
I have 2 5508 wlc, lap1142, want to implement wlc fail over, so what is your recommend wlc software. I harbor doubts about this configuration but after 1 day of work everything looks ok. Verify whether mdns service provider is listed in the mdns domains services. We just got our 5508 wlc installed and have started turning up our 1142 laps. View and download cisco 5508 wireless controller network management device datasheet online. And on wlc i attached mdns profile to dynamic interfaces. Aug 30, 2018 if youre familiar with the cisco wlc portfolio, the 5520 and 8540 wlcs are basically ucs based appliances with hardware offloading cards added in. What i want to do is allow clients on our guest wireless network to access things like the apple tv in our conference rooms. Aug 06, 20 all platforms already supporting bonjour in wlc software release 7. Unable to connect to management gui cisco 5508 wlc. Is there any disadvantage to placing a lan lwap in local mode, for the purposes of mdns. Ill ask guys from other site try this with their 5508 wlcs. In this post i will discuss configuration on the cisco wlc version 7. Cisco wireless recommend software version for wlc 5508.
The 3504 returns to the heritage of a from the ground up design of a purpose built desktop wlc solution and its aimed pretty squarely at the aging 2504 and 5508 platforms. Multiple vulnerabilities in cisco wireless lan controllers. We are looking at supporting bonjour on our hq lan, and mdns snooping does not work with flexconnect. Security vulnerabilities of cisco wireless lan controller software. Bonjour gateway wireless lan controller deployment.
Cisco wlc for wired to wireless mdns and bonjour packetu. Troubleshoot and understand mdns gateway on wireless lan controller wlc translations. You have to enable mdns snooping in order to controll bonjour. Cisco wlc says bonjour to apple devices goat networking. Cisco wlc 5508 ha licensing network engineering stack exchange. Troubleshoot and understand mdns gateway on wireless lan. As the name implies, it enables the wlc to act as a gateway between an mdns client in vlan a and an mdns server in vlan b.