BrowseAddress - client update

angelb at bugarin.us angelb at bugarin.us
Thu Aug 18 12:35:49 PDT 2005


> > Hi all.
> >
> > With a BrowseAddress configured for the CUPS server, does anyone know
> > how the clients are updated? In the client system, are there files
> > the client keep for printer updates?

> Clients recieve UDP packets on port 631 and add the printers to the
> in-memory list of printers.  Remote printers are not stored in
> printers.conf, so when you restart a client's cupsd it has to learn
> about the remote printers all over again.

Would this be the size of 80bytes per printer held in memory?

Thanks,
Angel




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