[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1671974] Re: cups-browsed Generates Excessive Amounts of UDP Multicast Traffic for BJNP

2017-08-08 Thread spm2011
Understood. Judging by some other reports such as https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6477200, it sounds like this is an upstream behaviour in the core CUPS that may have since been fixed (I'm testing with newer versions to see if I can reproduce). Shall I mark this Invalid ? -- You received

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1671974] Re: cups-browsed Generates Excessive Amounts of UDP Multicast Traffic for BJNP

2017-08-07 Thread Till Kamppeter
cups-browsed does for sure not send anything to the given ports, and it also does not directly send anything to the multicast addresses. It communicates with avahi-daemon via D-Bus to get informed about network printers appearing or disappearing, updates its internal printer list accordingly and cr

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1671974] Re: cups-browsed Generates Excessive Amounts of UDP Multicast Traffic for BJNP

2017-08-06 Thread spm2011
cups-browsed conf attached. I do not have a /var/log/cups/cups-browsed_log This bug can be reproduced/observed on a default install by enabling UFW. The blocked UDP multicast requests start to show up in /var/log/ufw.log cups-backend-bjnp is not installed. There are no special proprietary Canon d

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1671974] Re: cups-browsed Generates Excessive Amounts of UDP Multicast Traffic for BJNP

2017-08-04 Thread Till Kamppeter
Do you have the cups-bjnp package installed? It provides the "bjnp" CUPS backend to use Canon BJNP network printers (not USB printers). It communicates with the printer on port 8611 in both directions. The package contains the "bjnp" CUPS backend as the only non- documentation file. This backend i

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1671974] Re: cups-browsed Generates Excessive Amounts of UDP Multicast Traffic for BJNP

2017-08-04 Thread Till Kamppeter
cups-browsed does not directly interact with USB printers and is not triggered by USB events. Do you have any special software to support Canon printers (Canon MFNP, Canon BJNP) installed? Does this software mirror USB printers to emulated network printers? Does it do this mirroring also if no supp

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1671974] Re: cups-browsed Generates Excessive Amounts of UDP Multicast Traffic for BJNP

2017-08-04 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: cups-filters (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups-filters in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net