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What is Bonjour in Cisco?

What is Bonjour in Cisco?

Bonjour is a service discovery protocol that locates network devices such as computers and servers on your LAN. This utility discovers Cisco devices in the network and display basic information, such as serial numbers and IP addresses. For more information and to download the utility, visit www.cisco.com/go/findit.

What is Bonjour interface?

Bonjour locates devices such as printers, other computers, and the services that those devices offer on a local network using multicast Domain Name System (mDNS) service records. The software comes built-in with Apple’s macOS and iOS operating systems.

How does Bonjour work?

Bonjour uses a cache of Multicast DNS records to prevent hosts from requesting information that has already been requested. For example, when one host requests, say, a list of LPR print spoolers, the list of printers comes back via multicast, so all local hosts see it.

What is Bonjour discovery?

Bonjour is the Apple standards-based network technology designed to help devices and services discover each other on the same network.

How do I enable Bonjour on Cisco WLC?

Within the Cisco WLC interface, click on Controller and ensure you’re in the General section. From this section, ensure Broadcast Forwarding is Enabled. This was required by one of our vendors. We use Savant AV equipment and to manage those devices, and to also allow Bonjour, we had to enable this feature.

Is Bonjour still used?

Windows users have a choice to download Bonjour themselves. However, if you’re in an environment where Apple devices such as MacBooks or iPhones aren’t in use, you most likely don’t need it. If you’re mainly using a Windows computer but also have an iPhone or Apple TV, you’ll benefit from getting Bonjour.

Does Bonjour use multicast?

Configuring Bonjour on Dell Networking Bonjour uses link-local multicast, similar to a broadcast packet. Link-local multicast is allowed and enabled by default on Dell Networking switches; no configuration is needed.

Is Bonjour necessary on Windows 10?

Is Bonjour necessary on Windows 10? Windows users have a choice to download Bonjour themselves. However, if you’re in an environment where Apple devices such as MacBooks or iPhones aren’t in use, you most likely don’t need it.

What is mDNS Cisco?

The mDNS feature, makes the Cisco WLC, act as the mDNS-query-responder, for Apple’s wireless clients. Bonjour publishes services to ‘mDNS responders'(‘which’ when get queries from multicast clients while discovering for the services) provides those services.

How do I enable mDNS on a Cisco switch?

Enabling Multicast DNS Gateway (GUI)

  1. Choose Configuration > Controller > mDNS > Global.
  2. Select the mDNS gateway check box.
  3. From the Learn Service drop-down list, choose from the following options: Enable— Allows the switch to learn all the announced services.
  4. Click Apply.
  5. Click Save Configuration.

What is the IP address of interface VLAN 2?

interface vlan 2 ip address 10.10.2.1 255.255.255.0 interface vlan 3 ip address 10.10.3.1 255.255.255.0 interface vlan 4 ip address 10.10.4.1 255.255.255.0 interface vlan 9 ip address 10.10.9.10 255.255.255.0

What is the physical connection between VLANs?

Physical connection is this way: Router LAN port connected to Switch trunk port 1 (VLAN1) and VLAN10,20,30 are tagged to VLAN1 and i want the router to relay dhcp on VLAN 10,20 n 30 also all the devices connected to the VLANs should get internet ….from the router…

What is the VLAN number for isr2951?

10-28-2014 02:58 AM 10-28-2014 02:58 AM We have one ISR2951 with LAN: 192.168.1.1 (dhcp server enable – 192.168.1.10 – 192.168.1.250) and i tagged VLAN10,20and 30 to it.

How to route a VLAN to a layer 3 switch?

For the Layer 3 switch to do the routing, you would need to make sure the default gateway assigned to the Client PC is the VLAN IP of that Vlan. 10.10.1.1 for VLan 1. 10.10.2.1 for VLan 2… Next make sure you have a default route on the SG300

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