On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:51:52PM -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote: > James Carlson wrote: > > Artem Kachitchkine writes: > > 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.
as a late followup, if there is discovery using SNMP and mDNS , there would be the case, where one device is dicovered by both. How to handle this? Should it there a priority setting which one comes first and the other irgnored? (like the ordering in /etc/nsswitch.conf) Possibly I didn't see it mentioned, how would this discovery cross network boundaries e.g. an IP-Router. The mDNS approach could cross such boundaries, if additional mDNS domains/nameservers are explicitly configured or automaticly discovered. Think of printers in a remote location. With mDNS new printers (switched on right now) would be actively announced on the net and the printer configuration should wake up and inspect the new device immediately. Thomas --
