Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
by skykooler on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:16PM
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Of course, not all routers (particularly combo router/modems provided by your ISP) support multicast DNS, so often this isn't an option.
Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
by cstejerean on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:27PM
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I haven't seen a home router that doesn't support Bonjour in the past decade. It's a fundamental component in the Apple ecosystem and any home router that didn't allow one to wireless print from their iPhone would be considered broken.
Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
by brokenmachine on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:40AM
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Do people really wireless print from their iPhone? Not once can I say I've wanted to print from my phone.
Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
by atlanta90210 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:41AM
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Yes iphone wireless printing works great esp PDF attachments in emails. I use it quite a bit.
Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
by zamadatix on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:20PM
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The router doesn't really need to support anything, the mDNS packets just flood the bridge domain directly between clients like any other flooded packet.
Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
by ulope on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:56PM
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That’s the nice thing about mDNS. No flooding of anything since it’s multicast and not broadcast.
Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
by zamadatix on Monday September 11, 2023 @10:31PM
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It would be nice... if it were actually "real" multicast :). It's instead link-local multicast, which has none of the filtering advantages of traditional IP multicast (i.e. no group joining via IGMP is performed for the switches/routers to be able learn who actually needs to listen) https://community.cisco.com/t5/switching/route-igmp-link-loc... https://community.cisco.com/t5/switching/multicast-on-the-la....
The advantage of link-local multicast over a plain broadcast is it gives a unique address (IP and multicast) so the clients themselves can more easily filter them. That's about it.
IPP is print anywhere and it sounds like its been branded "Mopria".
I ditched a thing called HPLIP at home at least five years ago which used to be the cutting edge for Linux printing on HP printers. The bloke that developed CUPS said it was a good idea and I went for it.
Now it just works - always. It sounds like Windows is catching up, finally.