Speaking of Canon printers, does anyone know if there is/was any support for the Canon imageclass mf5750 4in1 printer scanner? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, 64bit server on the machine that I want to turn into a print server (through Samba so Windows machines can print to it). I can't find anything ... , and don't want to have to buy a new printer. :( On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Andrew Harris wrote: > Hi, > > For the past few days, my family has been suffering intolerable slowness on > our wireless network. It was only on wifi; all the wired computers seemed > fine. I ran virus scans on the Windows boxen, tried a few options on the > router (a WRT54GL), and *almost* googled for "slow Linksys router". But then > I opened up Wireshark (yes, I know, that should have been my *first* > thought). > > The first thing I noticed were shitloads of MDNS packets flying by, and the > router trying to keep up with it all. A scrolling wall of crimson with > occasional interruptions in Cisco-white. I clicked on one of the MDNS > packets and saw that it was actually my printer. I yanked the powercord from > the printer and it all stopped immediately. Our printer was attempting to > DoS us! Our very own printer! How rude. > > I plugged the printer back in and immediately went into the admin panel > (served on port 80 at the printer's IP address) and disabled Bonjour and LPR > service notification. I suggest you do the same should you purchase a Canon > printer with builtin wifi. > > Just remember, in the robot uprising, DoS attacks come first. Disable > Bonjour on your devices before it comes to skeletal robots with miniguns > mounted on either shoulder. > > -ah > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James