[cups.general] network saturation

angel bosch abo at brujulatelecom.com
Wed Dec 1 07:06:52 PST 2004


thx for your answer.
another thing not to worry about :)

El dc 01 de 12 del 2004 a les 08:57 -0500, en/na Michael Sweet va
escriure:
> angel bosch wrote:
> > hi!
> > 
> > is there any network problem with browsing feature?
> > i have about 200 machines and 40 printeres on a lan and cups is
> > installed on each machine. wich browsing options do you recommend me?
> 
> Probably the standard BrowseAddress stuff on the server(s) will be
> OK.  You can fiddle with the BrowseInterval (the default is 30
> seconds, you can set it as high as 150 without changing the
> client configuration) to reduce the frequency of the broadcasts,
> however I don't think you'll have any problems with 40 printers
> (that would work out to less than 2 packets per second of about
> 80 bytes going over your network...)
> 
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àngel bosch
abosch at brujulatelecom.com 
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