Re: [cups-devel] Adding IPP-over-USB Support to CUPS

On 10/16/2017 07:02 PM, Sean Kau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It looks like ippusbxd requires the dummy device to be included in the
> kernel which we would rather not add to our distro.  It's in the vein that
> it would be nice if CUPS could communicate with the IPP-over-USB device
> directly.
> 
> Sean

You do not need the dummy device. It works with localhost when one does 
small changes on Avahi. This would be much less invasive than having the 
dummy device used by default. Especially this also works in pure IPv4 
environments. Also the IPP-over-USB standard tells to use localhost with 
an alternative port. So I recommend the use with localhost and Avahi 
modification.

    Till