[cups-devel] Adding IPP-over-USB Support to CUPS

[Sean Kau]

Would you mind linking a copy of the standard?  I can only find an old
draft through a google search.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 2:46 PM Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 10/16/2017 07:02 PM, Sean Kau wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It looks like ippusbxd requires the dummy device to be included in the
> > kernel which we would rather not add to our distro.  It's in the vein
> that
> > it would be nice if CUPS could communicate with the IPP-over-USB device
> > directly.
> >
> > Sean
>
> You do not need the dummy device. It works with localhost when one does
> small changes on Avahi. This would be much less invasive than having the
> dummy device used by default. Especially this also works in pure IPv4
> environments. Also the IPP-over-USB standard tells to use localhost with
> an alternative port. So I recommend the use with localhost and Avahi
> modification.
>
>     Till
>
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