Subject: [netatalk-admins] IP-only netatalk [formerly:Network Server 700 and netatalk]
From: Donald Lee (donlee_nat@mailhost.icompute.com)
Date: Wed Apr 08 1998 - 23:17:03 EDT
>Q: what do i lose by going to tcp/ip only?
>A: tcp/ip based networks don't advertise services. as a result,
> you'll need to know the server/printer to which you want to
> connect.
Printing is also somewhat degraded. The UNIX lpd has no "backchannel" so
the more intelligent things done by appletalk printers, like telling you about
paper shortages, font downloading, querying for PPD stuff and so forth are
not possible. For the most part, this simply means that you have to
produce "conservative" postscript, and make guesses about what's at the
other end of the connection, but there are a bunch of other things
you simply can't do with current protocols.
-dgl-
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