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WMS5316 Airprint
I work for a school that has a WMS5316 controller with a few WNDAP350 APs. They've recently got some iPads, so we got Konica Minolta to upgrade the firmware on the printers to enable Airprint. Th...
I found the answer to my own question. There was an undocumented and unconfigured (not even on the same subnet, so not showing up on DHCP or network scans) Netgear switch being used to give POE to the access points.
I had a poke around in the settings, and turning off "IGMP Snooping" instantly cured all Airprint issues.
Funked wrote:All the APs are on the same VLAN, and all plugged in to the controller which in turn connects to an unmanaged switch, into which the printers are also connected.
For what it's worth, a WMS5316 is not branded as a Wireless Controller but as a Wireless Manager. (I say "branded" because I'm not trying to discuss of names ^^)
The difference being that it does NOT control any of the Wireless traffic, it's "only" there to push configuration to the Access Points (mass management). Once the Access Points are configured, they work as stand alone. You could even remove the WMS5316 from the network.
Therefore, I wouldn't recommend connecting all the Access Points to the WMS5316 and then the WMS5316 to the switch. As it makes the WMS5316 a bottleneck. Instead, simply connect everything to the switch (of course, you need to configure the VLANs properly).
Hope it helps ;)
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