RV320 Bonjour Discovery across VLANs?

[Richard Fuller]

Hi

I have a network consisting of 2 VLANs - one for the "main" network and one for a "guest" network setup using an RV320 router. I have a couple of Apple TVs and a Sony smart TV setup on the main network VLAN. I would like these devices to be discoverable and usable on the guest VLAN as well. After reading various articles about Bonjour, it seems that this is not easily done.

Can anyone confirm whether or not it is possible to provide this functionality on the RV320 router? Any advice would be most appreciated.

Regards.

[Andrew Lien]

Hi Richard,

My name is Andrew and I am a content developer for the Cisco knowledge base.

There is bonjour discovery on the RV320. According to the admin guide, page 61, under the System Management tab. " When this feature is enabled, the device

periodically multicasts Bonjour service records to the LAN to advertise its

existence." According to the photo I provided, it does allow you to enable bonjour on different VLANs.

From there, you can enable or disable bonjour for specific VLANs.

It seems like your configuration would be similar to this topology below,

Where the RV320 can route traffic across different VLANs (with bonjour enabled). You might want to check your Port Management tab if inter-vlan routing is enabled.

I hope this answers your question.

[Richard Fuller]

Hi Andrew

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I can confirm that my network topology is similar to your diagram. I can also confirm that I have Bonjour enabled on both VLANS and that inter-vlan routing is enabled.

However, the "discovery" is still not happening across the VLAN boundaries. Are there any other settings I should check?

[cchamorr · Accepted solution]

Hello, 

I'm sorry but I'm very positive the Bonjour traffic will stay within the VLANS. This type of traffic is not allowed to cross over to other VLAN's.

I'm not sure there is a workaround but I don't think so.

[Richard Fuller]

Hi

Thanks for your reply. That's pretty much the conclusion I came to by reading various other articles. Thanks for your help anyway.

[cchamorr]

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