Meru Technical Note - How to make the LanSchool application to work with Meru devices

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Description

How to make the LanSchool application to work with Meru devices.

Scope

KB ARTICLE TYPE: Configuration

RELATED PRODUCTS: MC1000, AP201, AP208, AP320

RELATED SOFTWARE VERSIONS: 3.6-124

KEYWORDS: LanSchool, application, UDP

Solution

STEPS TAKEN FOR TROUBLESHOOTING:

STEP 1: Forward the ports 796 and 1053 under UDP broadcast upstream & downstream in the Controller.

STEP 2: The Multicast flag should be enabled in an ESS profile where the clients using the application would connect which is mapped to a single security profile, and it should be the only ESS profile using a VLAN.

STEP 3: The Data transmission in LanSchool Teacher has to be set to IP-Multicast.

RESOLUTION: Forward the ports 796 and 1053 in the controller and enable Multicast flag for the ESS used by the clients.