VPN for Airprint
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Since there is no cloud print for Apple (official), I was thinking there has to be a way to implement this over VPN. The biggest problem of course is that AirPrint is not routable, it has to be on the same subnet as the AirPrint printer so it can respond to a broadcast message.
As far as I can tell all VPN technologies require that you, of course, have a separate pool of IPs/subnet that get routed to your local LAN.
Anyway I'm sure you can all tell what my dilemma is … can this be implemented technologically on pfsense? ???
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Bumping this because I'd like to see the same, both for AirPrint and streaming stuff from my TiVos…
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Search around here for OpenVPN tap bridge, that should work.
Though AirPrint might use Bonjour in which case you can use Avahi on a site-to-site VPN to pass bonjour back and forth
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OpenVPN doesn't work with an iPhone/iPad.
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It does if you jailbreak
There isn't a way to make IPsec bridge in the way that would require on iOS either (even with jailbreaking)
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Airprint uses Bonjour! This has been a real nightmare for me and my customer sites. I doubt Bonjour can traverse a VPN. Definitely will not traverse a bridged interface!
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The Avahi package can re-broadcast Bonjour across subnets or a VPN (OpenVPN at least, not IPsec). It should go across a bridge with no problem, too.
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I know I'm kind of resurrecting an older thread, but I'm trying to get this to work in my office. We have 3 sites all connected via a site-to-site OpenVPN.
the VPN itself is working, however I'm curious about the Avahi package and wether it needs to be installed and configured on each pfSense box or if only setting it up on the network that has the printer we want to send jobs to will suffice?
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It must be on every pfSense firewall, since it needs to proxy the mDNS messages between the VPN and the LAN at each site.
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Great. thanks for the reply!
