Bonjour with 2 BDDs, different MGMT-network. Both don`t see each other over the air. I have a filter rule in place with "max wireless hops = 1". BDD neighbor metric still shows as 1. I don`t want to have services from the remote BDD available to clie

[kay_blocksiepen]

when the BDDs don`t see each other directly over the air. Any proposals?

AH-a81600#show bonjour-gateway status

Note: bonjour client only learning/registering aerohive special services

Running as bonjour gateway

Bonjour Gateway Status:Enabled

Realm Name: realmA

Device priority: 23

My BDD: 192.168.105.100

Local mgt0: IP(192.168.105.100/24), VLAN(1105) MAC(f4ea:b5a8:1600)

Total 2 Local Attached VLANs: 1105 1106

Total Services: 0; Total Self-Services: 0; Published Times: 0

Total 1 Remote BDDs:

1) 192.168.103.20 metric=1

Bonjour VLAN range:    1-4094

AH-a81600#show bon

AH-a81600#show bonjour-gateway ser

AH-a81600#show bonjour-gateway service rem

AH-a81600#show bonjour-gateway service remote

Show Remote Bonjour Gateway Service:

================================================================================     ====

1) Name=X-Mirage[lappen]; Type=_airplay._tcp.; subType=; VLAN=1104; BDD=192.168.     103.20

2) Name=705A0F82A80C@X-Mirage[lappen]; Type=_raop._tcp.; subType=; VLAN=1104; BD     D=192.168.103.20

Total 2 services.

In general I am looking for a way, to have one flat L2 Network for Clients, but show only lets say appleTVs that are close to the client.

I hope it`s clear what I am willing to achieve.

Thanks in advance.

[kay_blocksiepen]

First of all thank you for the answers.

Is there any further description on the parameter "Max wireless hops" on Bonjour Gateway filter rules? What I get from the help is the following:

Max Wireless Hop: Specify how many management subnet hops away a BDD can be from another BDD for them to advertise the services that they share. Enter the maximum number of management subnet hops there can be between one BDD and another for the recipient to accept service advertisements. The range of metric values is from 0 to 100. A value of 0, the default, means that there is no maximum distance.

I have both APs APs in one network policy but 2 different BDDs by putting those in different management VLANs. So my guess was, if the APs cannot see each other over the air, they shouldn`t learn remote services because the metric for "Max wireless hops" should be higher than 1.

Is there any example configuration where "max wireless hops" is used?

[bpowers]

One way I think you can do this is to put the two APs into different hive objects (and by nature different Network Policies). If you've got two different MGMT VLANs, you may already have the APs in different Network Policies. IIRC, the bonjour membership for remote requires the same hive for inter AP communication since they're on a different VLAN.

What is not possible is to do positioning as Sam said and how some other vendors do it by only redistributing the mDNS traffic from only the nearby APs.

[samantha_lynn]

The only way to not advertise the services from the bonjour gateway would be to not include the guest VLAN in the remote bonjour gateway set up. If the bonjour gateway is set up to broadcast the apple TVs on the guest VLAN, the guest network will be able to see those apple TVs regardless of client location. Unfortunately we don't currently have a way to offer bonjour services based on client positioning.