Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org> wrote:
> That's something I was wondering about the other day. Is there a
> protocol (something related to IPP I'd guess) which allows for
> discovery of network printers? Pointers to the relevant documentation
> or RFC would be appreciated. The WvPrint people mentioned something
> about that but AFAICS it's still vapourware.
How about SLP? For all network services, not just printing.
http://www.openslp.org/
CUPS supports it, but it's buggy at the moment:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=191727
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