[cups.bugs] BUG: STR #2756

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Mar 14 03:53:58 PDT 2008


Roger Niva wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Could you please reopen bug 2756. It is NOT a duplicate of 1254.
> The bugreport is about connections the cups daemon creates when it tries to print, ie outwards connections.

cupsd does not make outgoing connections.

> Now, if you try to print to a network printer through this daemon, the tcp connections will originate from 192.168.1.1.

That's correct and expected since there is no way for the backend to
know which interface to bind to, and sometimes it is *not* the same
interface cupsd is listening on...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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