[cups.development] [RFE] STR #1655: Add SNMP page counter and printer status support to socket and lpd backends

[Michael R Sweet]

Jerome Alet wrote:
> ...
> In my experience several printers have this kind of problems. Is it 
> because they are misconfigured by default, buggy, or for some other 
> reason, I don't know... If you want to be able to trust what the 
> printers report in the general case, it's better to double check 
> when possible. This sort of checks should be configurable, ideally. 

Which is exactly why a vendor can provide their own filter, port
monitor, and/or backend if they want to support their own
implementation of a protocol.  Current 1.4 is *not* feature
complete, and in particular you will see side-channel support for
SNMP and a new PPD keyword that tells the backends not to use the
standard SNMP Printer MIB lookups.

All we can do is write code that follows the standards.  If a vendor
doesn't want to follow the standards, they have to write their own
code.

-- 
______________________________________________________________________
Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer