Unable to advertise printers

[Alan]

This is embarrassing, but broadcast was not enabled.
Now it is, and everything is working, thanks a lot.

Even though cups was working just fine all the time, I do have a recommendation, I think the documentation needs to be improved.
Documentation is very important, and is never too much.
You might want to check Exim documentation pages (www.exim.org), they are the best I have ever seen and is one of the things that make the software so good.

For example, some config options of cups appeared in different versions of the software, the docs should indicate in which version each option is available.

Also, the order of some options affect the outcome, this should be stated.

Finally, config options Port and Listen are slightly different, maybe Listen alone is good enough.


Thanks again.

Alan


> Is broadcast enabled on the interface?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 28, 2011, at 5:30 PM, Alan <lameventanas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> On Apr 28, 2011, at 1:03 AM, Alan wrote:
> >>> I am trying to set a cups server to advertise its printer to other clients.
> >>>
> >>> The server has 3 interfaces: lo, eth0 and br0
> >>> br0 is a linux bridge interface composed of eth1 eth2 and eth3
> >>
> >> Are the interfaces bonded (so they have a single IP address)?
> >>
> >> If not, you'll need to specify @IF(eth1), @IF(eth2), and @IF(eth3) separately.
> >
> > Yes, they have a single IP address.
> >
> > I have also sniffed traffic in eth1, eth2, and eth3, and I also tried to specify the IP address, yet I don't get anything.
> >
> > Just FYI, this is how I create br0:
> >
> >        ip link set eth1 up
> >        ip link set eth2 up
> >        ip link set eth3 up
> >        brctl addbr br0
> >        brctl addif br0 eth1
> >        brctl addif br0 eth2
> >        brctl addif br0 eth3
> >        ip addr ad 10.2.0.1/16 dev br0
> >        ip link set br0 up