On 10/06/2014 03:44 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 12:32 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Since it wasn't clear, "bnjp://" over 8611 is the "bonjour" protocol >> (Apple's implementation of the Zeroconf protocol). > No it is not Bonjour related. BJNP is the Canon Inkjet printing > protocol. Cups-bjnp implements this protocol to enabler network printing
That's what I was thinking. On a Canon printer I was thinking that the BJ part of the name stood for "Bubble Jet" which was a Canon thingy a few years back. > on Canon Inkjet printers. Sane implements it (on port 8612) for scanning > over IP-networks. Now it is true that Canon printers often use Zeroconf > for advertising their capabilities, so cups-bjnp could theoretically use > it to find printers. It however uses UDP broadcasts to find the printers > on the local network. Implementing zeroconf in cups-bjnp is somewhere > low on my TODO list (I wrote cups-bjnp) as nobody has asked for it and I > have no use for it myself. > > Best regards, Louis Thanks for the clarification Louis. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@verizon.net cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://www.linuxcounter.net/) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
