[cups.general] auto-discover of network printers relies on ip6?
Michael Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Mon Apr 2 10:17:33 PDT 2012
Hmm, not sure why this is having trouble then... Do you see any errors if you run:
/usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp @LOCAL
On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:24 PM, willie wrote:
>
> I hadn't even thought of looking at the printer config, but no:
>
> TCP/IP Enabled
> IPv6 Disabled
> SMTP Disabled
> NETBIOS/IP Enabled
> IPP Enabled
> FTP Enabled
> mDNS Disabled
> APIPA Disabled
> SNMP Enabled
> Web Server Enabled
> TELNET Enabled
>
>
>
>
>> Is the Brother printer configured to only support IPv6?
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2012, at 2:11 PM, willie <tumbleweed at fast-mail.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello folks,
>>>
>>> I wouldn't know if this is a bug or not but I'd sure like to understand what's happening.
>>>
>>> I'm running linux 3.2.12/cups 1.5.2.
>>>
>>> Since disabling the ip6 stack with kernel argument "ipv6.disable=1", cups fails to discover network printers on the cups server web page (localhost:631). If I remove that kernel line parameter and reinstate ip6, all is well again.
>>>
>>> I've failed to find any info out there to suggest that cups *depends* on ipv6.
>>>
>>> I use static IP addressing and the problem occurs with both wired and wireless networking.
>>>
>>> (If it's relevant, one printer that's no longer discovered without an ipv6 stack is a Brother HL-5250dn.)
>>>
>>> Can anyone help?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
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