Konica Minolta bizhub C35 bizhub C35 Reference Guide - Page 236
LLTD, LPD/LPR, SLP, Unicast, Multicast, and Broadcast
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LLTD The acronym for Link Layer Topology Discovery, which is a technology investigating how the devices on the network are connected. Network devices with this technology are recognized by Windows 7/Vista/Server 2008 on the network, and displayed as icons configured on the network map of Windows 7/ Vista. LPD/LPR LPD/LPR (Line Printer Daemon/Line Printer Request) is a platformindependent printing protocol that runs over TCP/IP. Originally implemented for BSD UNIX, its use has spread into the desktop world and is now an industry standard. SLP Traditionally, in order to locate services on the network, users had to supply the host name or network address of the machine providing the desired service. This has created many administrative problems. However, SLP (Service Location Protocol) simplifies the discovery and use of network resources such as printers by automating a number of network services. It provides a framework that allows networking applications to discover the existence, location, and configuration of networked services. With SLP users no longer need to know the names of network hosts. Instead, they need to know only the description of the service they are interested in. Based on this description, SLP is able to return the URL of the desired service. Unicast, Multicast, and Broadcast SLP is a unicast and a multicast protocol. This means that messages can be sent to one agent at a time (unicast) or to all agents (that are listening) at the same time (multicast). However, a multicast is not a broadcast. In theory, broadcast messages are "heard" by every node on the network. Multicast differs from broadcast because multicast messages are only "heard" by the nodes on the network that have "joined the multicast group." For obvious reasons network routers filter almost all broadcast traffic. This means that broadcasts that are generated on one subnet will not be "routed" or forwarded to any of the other subnets connected to the router (from the router's perspective, a subnet is all machines connected to one of its ports). Multicasts, on the other hand, are forwarded by routers. Multicast traffic from a given group is forwarded by routers to all subnets that have at least one machine that is interested in receiving the multicast for that group. Network Printing 7-9