Configure Bonjour Reflector for Network Segmentation
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Configure Bonjour Reflector for Network Segmentation
Apple Bonjour (also known as zero-configuration networking)
enables automatic discovery of devices and services on a local network.
For example, Bonjour allows you to connect to a printer without
manually configuring the printer’s IP address. To translate names
to addresses on a local network, Bonjour uses Multicast DNS (mDNS).
Bonjour uses a private multicast range for its traffic, which does
not allow traffic routing, preventing use in an environment that
uses network segmentation for security or administrative purposes
(for example, where servers and clients are in different subnets).
To
support Apple Bonjour in network environments that use segmentation to
route traffic, you can forward Bonjour IPv4 traffic between Layer 3 Interfaces (L3) Ethernet
or Aggregate Ethernet (AE)
interfaces or subinterfaces that you specify. The Bonjour Reflector
option allows you to forward multicast Bonjour advertisements and
queries to L3 Ethernet and AE interfaces or subinterfaces, ensuring
user access to services and device discoverability regardless of
Time To Live (TTL) values or hop limitations.
Bonjour
traffic forwarding is supported for the PA-220, PA-400, PA-800,
and PA-3200 series.
When you enable this option, the firewall
redirects Bonjour traffic to the L3 and AE interfaces and subinterfaces
where you enable this option. You must enable this option on all
supported interfaces that you want to manage Bonjour traffic; for
example, if you want a specific L3 interface to forward Bonjour
traffic to an AE interface, you must enable this option on both
interfaces. You can enable this option on up to 16 interfaces.
To
prevent loops, the firewall modifies the source MAC address to the
firewall’s egress interface MAC address. To help prevent flooding
attacks, if the firewall receives more than the number of packets
per second specified in the following table, the firewall drops
the packets to protect the firewall and the network.
Series | Rate Limit (per second) |
|---|---|
PA-220 | 100 |
PA-400 | N/A |
PA-800 | 200 |
PA-3200 | 500 |
- Select .
- Select orAddan L3 ethernet or subinterface or AE interface.If you add a subinterface, it must use aTagother than 0.
- SelectIPv4then select theEnable Bonjour Reflectoroption.
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- ClickOK.
- Repeat steps 1—4 for all L3 or AE interfaces and subinterfaces where you want to forward Bonjour traffic.You can enable this option on up to 16 different interfaces or subinterfaces.
- Commityour changes.
- Confirm that theFeaturescolumn for the interface or interfaces where you enable the Bonjour Reflector option displaysBonjour Reflector:yes().
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- Use theshow bonjour interfaceCLI command to display all interfaces where the firewall forwards Bonjour traffic and a list of counters.rxrepresents the total number of Bonjour packets the interface receives,txrepresents the total number of Bonjour packets the interface transmits, anddroprepresents the number of packets the interface drops.admin> show bonjour interface name rx tx drop ---------------------------------------------------------- ethernet1/4 1 1 0 ethernet1/7 0 0 0 ethernet1/7.10 0 0 0 ethernet1/7.20 4 4 0 ae15 0 0 0 ae16 0 0 0 ae16.30 0 2 0 ae16.40 0 0 0
