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shim99

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#305792 4-Jun-2023 10:42
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wondering if there is anyone out there who may be able to help.

 

I've recently moved from a Edgerouter lite to a Grandstream GWN7502. 

 

The experience has been very easy and for the most part much more intuitive than the Edgerouter. 

 

My basic network is a main LAN for the people who live in the house (192.168.1.X) on VLAN1 and a Guest network (172.16.1.X) on VLAN 1999. I've isolated the networks so both have access to the WAN but not each other. 

 

I have a printer at 192.168.1.106 which I would like the Guests to be able to use. I had this working fine on the Edgerouter but having trouble on the Grandstream which highlights my lack of networking knowledge. I may have fluked getting it working on the Edgrerouter ;-)

 

I can set a forwarding rule so that traffic from 172.16.1.X can access 192.168.1.106, which has allowed me to set up a printer on a windows computer through entering the IP address manually. But what i would like to do ideally is have the printer auto-discovered (eg AirPrint from ios). Under the current set-up that doesn't work. I assume to do this i need the printer to be exposed to the 172.16.1.X network generally but I'm not sure how to do this or whether there is a different way through static routing. 

 

Any tips or guidance would be greatly appreciated. 

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

 


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RunningMan
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  #3084655 4-Jun-2023 11:04
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It will need mDNS for auto discovery.




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  #3085034 5-Jun-2023 09:15
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Thanks @runningman

 

The printer itself does have airprint and if on the main network comes up as an airporint printer. I can't seem to find any documentation for mDNS for the grandstream so maybe i've hit a deadend. 

 

I did try an alternative of setting up a 3rd VLAN just for the printer and giving both other VLANs access to that using the following information from: https://help.gowifi.co.nz/support/solutions/articles/48001184280-intervlan-routing-on-the-grandstream-gwn7000-rou 

 

I could access the printer from both other VLANs via the printer IP address but again airprint didn't come up. 

 

Maybe its a limitation of the Grandstream over the Edgerouter. 


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  #3085037 5-Jun-2023 09:24
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Sorry, can't help with the GWN router specifically, but the auto discovery of printers and similar devices is usually mDNS. Apple's implementation is called Bonjour.

 

mDNS won't pass through between network segments unless either the router or another device is specifically configured to do so.




shim99

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  #3085040 5-Jun-2023 09:55
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All good, really appreciate the pointers so far. 

 

I've found a checkbox for Bonjour Services on the SSID set-up and will play around with that. 


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