Accepted mDNS repeater across VLANS
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Accepted mDNS repeater across VLANS
Hi,
I did not found an mDNS on the omada controller to enable discovery across multiple vlans ... this is definitely something missing for the people, like me, that are using Omada devices in their home and have smart devices.
Please consider adding this feature.
I browsed through the forum and saw that this has been requested since end of 2020 : https://community.tp-link.com/en/business/forum/topic/243494
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If I only knew about the lack of this feature (mDNS) before, I had invested a lot of $$$ in the whole stack of Omada devices :(
TP-Link, this should be a base feature!
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Hello,
whats about the L2+ jetstream Switch like TL-SG3428 ?
Do you also plan to use the function with the switch?
My problem is i can't put IOT Devices and the Bridge in another VLAN/Network as the Apple HomeKit Device.
Apple uses mDNS/Bonjour Protocol a Link Local Mutlicast Adres 224.0.0.251.
Other brand uses multicast reflect from vlan to vlan to solve this problem.
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I didn't wait for TP-Link to implement the mDNS repeater and finally used https://github.com/alsmith/multicast-relay running on a raspberry pi with virtual network interface to the desired vlans. This multicast-relay is also able to relay sonos UDP discovery which is not using mDNS. It is also capable to relay broadcast on custom ports which could be usefull for edge cases.
This should help you to make it all work between vlans.
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hi thank you for the information.
I have also running a raspberry pi in my network.
Can you tell me in which vlan/network your raspi is running? In the same vlan where also the iot devices are?
My network is like thie
VLAN 30 | 192.168.30.1 - wireless and wired devices (iphone, homepod) for Homekit
VLAN 40 | 192.168.40.1 - the raspi with homebridge and all the IOT devices
When i'm in the same network VLAN40 the homekit is working
but when i change to the vlan 30 with my iphone the homekit can't reach the devices.
So i will try your example
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@nurix It is kind of in all the VLAN i need the broadcast to be relayed to. In your case, you want two network interface, one for the VLAN 30 and on for the VLAN 40.
Lets say that your raspberry pi is currently wired (interface eth0) to your switch and the switch is configured to route the untagged traffic to the VLAN 40.
You need to create a virtual network interface tagged to the VLAN 30 (interface eth0.30) and configure your switch to allow tagged traffic for the VLAN 30.
Then run the multicast-relay and specifying the interface eth0 and eth0.30
You could also create 2 virtual interface for both vlans for clarity purpose if you prefer.
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hi, thanks for the thoughts.
i do my best to try it ;)
I have found also this one maybe you have more experience in this stuff
https://github.com/monstrenyatko/docker-mdns-repeater
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@nurix I don't know this particular one but have found others. The one I gave you convicend me because it was capable of handling more than only the mDNS multicast (such as SONOS or custom ports). But if you only need mDSN you can use the one you want.
Have fun ;)
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Hi All,
FYI, the mDNS repeater will be added on Controller v5.6, probably released on October this year.
I'll update this thread on the same topic once there is more new information came up.
Thanks for your attention and great patience!
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@Fae so the last update states the mDNS repeater. Will that work across VLans ?
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