[Netatalk-devel] RE: [Netatalk-admins] more than 15 printers

[Bjoern F. <li...@fe...>]

I hate following up to myself...

> Using 
> the naming scheme above, each printer would use about 24 
> bytes in the response packet, so atalkd would put ~24 
> printers in each packet. This simply seems to be too much :-) 

It doesn't only seem to, it simply is.
The count field in an NBPLKUP reply is only 4 bits wide, so obviously the
maximum number of items in a packet is 15. 

> Whether this is a Mac chooser bug or a bug in the NBP 
> implementation or some undocumeted "feature" I can't tell. 
> I'm assuming here that the problem lies on the Mac side, as 
> nbplkup shows all printers without the 10 items limit. 

It's certainly not a Mac problem. atalkd produces invalid packets.

> However, maybe this limit is documented by Apple, and I 
> simply haven't found it yet, or the limit to 10 simply masks 
> another Netatalk bug.

A look with open eyes in the netatalk headers or on an ethereal trace would
have been enough, so i must have been asleep... 
Fixed atalkd in 2.0 CVS.

Bjoern