MDNS Multicast with RT-AC68U Bridge Setup

[Dan-in-VA]

Greetings,

I bought four RT-AC68U routers. One to serve as router, the other three to serve as Media Bridges in three different locations. They work great. In those locations, devices such as Tivos, XBOXes, etc. are connected.

The only thing that doesn't work is Bonjour/MDNS/ZeroConfig for the devices on the bridged routers.

I have seen some traffic on some boards saying that there should be a "Wireless Multicast Forwarding" option under the "Professional" tab, however, I don't see this option.

How can I get multicast working so that mdns/Bonjour will work?

Running bios version 3.0.0.4.374.501

https://vip.asus.com/FORUM/view.asp...U&id=20121117181857278&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

 

[Dan-in-VA]

Bump.

Nobody knows the answer to this???

 

[L&LD]

I think you want to try to enable the IGMP Snooping feature and make sure the Multicast rate is set appropriately too.

(Under the Professional Tab - make sure you enable for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands if you're using both).

 

[Asusnet]

Change the media bridges to repeater mode and see if the same issue occurs.

 

[Dan-in-VA]

I will try the IGMP snooping and let you know. I was hoping to avoid repeater mode.

 

[alkie]

Did you ever figure this out? A few of us still have the issue. IGMP snooping doesn't fix the issue.

See: http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=21689&highlight=media+bridge+mdns