James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> writes: > Norm Jacobs writes: >> James Carlson wrote: >> > What about Avahi? >> > >> Most of the printers that I have come across don't support mDNS. A >> couple of the newer ones that I have tested with do. I am looking at >> incorporating it as a discovery method. mDNS support should >> introduce a relatively small incremental change to this case to >> import the necessary interfaces and introduce an interface to control >> the discovery method. > > That seems reasonable. I was just surprised at the absence of any > mention, as this was (at one point) the direction we were going for > network discovery.
I believe it's the way Apple are going too, and I think they're working on convincing printer manufacturers to use more mDNS. It would be nice to piggy-back on that work. Boyd
