AirPrint with VLAN is flaky

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Doreen

• June 08, 2022 02:50

mDNS reflector is on for both networks. I also have a rule to allow inbound traffic from the LAN to the printer. I can ping the printer and also access its web interface. Unfortunately, most of the time the printer is not available when I try to AirPrint. Strangely enough, if I reboot the printer, it shows up again and prints just fine, for a few minutes it at least. But after a while it stops working again (until I reboot the printer again). Perhaps the printer is going into sleep mode and stops advertising itself, and meanwhile the cached entry in the mDNS reflector expires. Completely wild guess though, I honestly have no clue what's going on.

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  Firewalla

  • June 08, 2022 15:54

  Try to add the printer using its IP address, it may work a lot better.

  The real problem is likely how the printer is broadcasting itself to the LAN. 

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  Doreen

  • June 08, 2022 15:56

  Strangely enough, after some additional digging, I found a "solution" by enabling IPv6 on the printer. For anyone who has a Brother printer and running into this, that seems to be the solution.

  Thanks!

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