CISCO Informacast services not working on Ruckus WLAN

Summary

InformaCast is an emergency mass notification system that sends critical messages to on-premises devices and mobile users, helping keep people safe — by providing notification solutions for every need. This system does not work on Ruckus WLAN's natively.

Question

CISCO's Informacast end client software is not working on Ruckus WLAN.
Works on the wired network when PC's are plugged in.
Alerts and paging messages are not received on client devices when they are on the Wifi
The CISCO Informacast cl

Customer Environment

Ruckus Access Points Ruckus Virtual Smart Zone Controller Controller Version: 6.1.0.0.935 Control Plane Software Version: 6.1.0.0.683 AP Firmware Version: 6.1.0.0.1595 Aruba JL261A 2930F-24G-PoE+-4SFP Switch

Root Cause

The software uses SLP(Service Location Protocol) multicast to discover the Informcast server on their LAN Ruckus directed multicast features are suspected to be breaking SLP by converting the multicast to unicast and disabling the same on Eth and WLAN interfaces resolved issues

Symptoms

Informcast server hello multicast packet seen on Client Captures
But the client does not register on the server
Connecting the same client to wired network same VLAN works

Troubleshooting Steps

Packet captures taken on Server
Packet captures were taken on Client
Packet captures were taken on AP uplink and WLAN interfaces
No drops noticed
However, when QOS processing / Directed multicast is enabled on WLAN interface the software does not work as intended
When directed multicast is disabled and QOS processing is disabled on the Ruckus AP WLAN interface the software works without issues

Workaround

Disabled QOS functionality of WLAN logical interface to make the software work
Access the AP via SSH and disable QOS on WLANs that have CISCO Informacast nodes
The following commands can also be run from the AP Diagnostic Script function of SZ
The following commands can also be run from the Remote AP Cli feature of SZ and ZD

set qos igmp_query v2 disable
set qos igmp_query v3 disable
set qos eth0 classification disable
set qos eth0 classification disable
set qos wlan33 classification disable

Resolution

Yet to get a fix/confirmation from TAC of CISCO Informacast about support for Directed Multicast
As of right now, TAC recommends disable of Multicast to Unicast conversation to allow software to work as intended

Article Number:
000013961

Updated:
December 14, 2022 05:12 AM (almost 2 years ago)

Tags:
Troubleshooting, Unleashed, ZoneDirector, SmartCell Gateway, Cloud Services

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