On 5/6/08 5:34 PM, "Jose Hales-Garcia" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> So here's my question: is there a big difference between LPD
>> printing vs
>> AppleTalk printing? Is one clearly a better choice than the other?
>> We had
>> always chosen IP/LPD printing because it was less "chatty" than
>> AppleTalk or
>> Bonjour, but maybe they are better options....
>
> AppleTalk is deprecated and has been replaced with Bonjour. Both are
> auto-discovery protocols.
No, AppleTalk has been mostly replaced with TCP/IP services. Parts of
AppleTalk, such as AFP and PAP are alive and well.
Bonjour is not an autodiscovery protocol. Actually, it's not any kind of
protocol. It is a marketing name for Zeroconf. Zeroconf is not a protocol
either. It is a collection of things, such as multicast DNS, IPv4LL
addressing, and DNS-SD, which give you the good parts of AppleTalk in an
all-IP configuration without the overkill of SLP.
For Printing in Mac OS X 10.5, Bonjour favors IPP, because IPP gives you the
kind of two way feedback you're used to with PAP.
--
John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions
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