LeightonJames Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Hi all A number of the schools I work at are starting to purchase iPads and we are using Meraki as a deployment tool. The issue with this is is that as soon as we start deploying the devices the Internet grinds to a halt as the devices are trying to download the apps. I am aware of the Content Caching service built into OSX Server however I am not sure how it is setup/configured to work on a specific range of addresses. I'll give you an example of a typical setup in one of our schools. The school has a range of 4 IP Addresses (i.e. 10.48.100.1 - 10.48.103.254). These addresses have been split up as follows: 10.48.100.1-10.48.101.254 are for curriculum and admin machines using DHCP 10.48.102.1-254 has been designated the Mobile Device range and uses reservations to ensure that only the iPads sit on this range. 10.48.103.1-254 is our Infrastructure range. This covers servers, switches, printers, AP's and other such items. In this scenario, the Mac running the server App would sit on the Infrastructure range and provide the content for devices on the Mobile range. Is this possible and if so how do I configure the server app to make the content available for just a specified range of addresses? The above has been posted on a Mac Forum too.
AntonioRocco Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Caching Server is designed to work behind NAT. A single external IP address translating to your private network. It's transparent to the end users and there should be nothing for you to configure. However not all private networks use single subnets. Assuming you haven't seen them these Apple Support articles might help? http://help.apple.com/serverapp/mac/4.0/#/apd74DDE89F-08D2-4E0A-A5CD-155E345EFB83 Scroll down to the heading "What if my network is more complicated than that?" This second link may be helpful for networks using routable IP addresses. http://help.apple.com/serverapp/mac/4.0/#/apd6015d9573 Antonio Rocco (ACSA)
furby Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 (edited) Yes, here's the admin guide https://help.apple.com/advancedserveradmin/mac/4.0/#/apdC36C9994-1533-4DCB-9CFF-870CB0FADCDB edit/beaten to it Edited February 25, 2015 by furby
LeightonJames Posted February 25, 2015 Author Posted February 25, 2015 Thanks for the responses, gives me and the systems guys something to look at.
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