Multi-CUPS servers

[angelb at bugarin.us]

> > ...
> > 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...
>

I thought I understood how broadcasting works and that's the reason
why I requested additional interfaces for our servers so that they,
the client and servers are on the same subnet, can talk directly.

Your explanation on broadcasting was exactly what's on my mind. The way
I explained it was based on how my current CUPS configuration are setup
and my observation on the servers. It turned out that my configuration
is not set correctly. I managed to comment the @LOCAL.

Last question if you don't mind... :)   Is it still necessary to setup
a default server in the client configuration if I have two servers and
they are all in the same subnet?

I appreciate very much your help and suggestions.

Thanks!
Angel