Multi-CUPS servers

[Michael Sweet]

angelb at bugarin.us wrote:
> ...
> With strict broadcasting, the clients can listen to only one server
> at one time. This means that if you have multiple servers, you're back
> to doing browse-polling, well half-half because you can specify one
> server as your primary which could be the server that does the broad-
> cast and the other server, whether on the same network or not, your
> clients are forced to do a browse-poll.

That's not how the broadcasting works.  As long as the client can
see *both* servers on the same subnet, and as long as your servers
are broadcasting on the client's subnet, then the clients will see
them both.

Make sure you are using BrowseAddress @LOCAL (or manually list the
subnet broadcast addresses with separate BrowseAddress lines) on the
servers - the usual BrowseAddress 255.255.255.255 doesn't propagate
to all interfaces with every OS...

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