Feature Requests

Hello everybody,

I'm new to both m0n0wall and freebsd (or any *nix) so I must admit I don't know very much about the possibility to implement a printserver in conjuncion to m0n0wall, ie on the same machine. I will set up m0n0wall on an old P4, the USB and parallell ports will not be in use which I think is a waste as it would be very convenient skipping an extra (very expensive) box for network printing.

Greetings from Sweden

http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/intro-not.html - I think a printserver has nothing to do with a firewall.

Printservers can be tiny, use little power and very cheap.

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1313&_nkw=printserver&_sacat=See-All-Categories

A print server would be a good idea. I see some commercial routers with a built-in USB port for a printer connection. I am sure there are a lot of Monowall users who use generic standard PCs that have at least a few USB ports on them. It would be nice to use them.

If you go over to the FreeNas forum you will see a print server is possible using LPrn and get the idea of how to implement it on mOnOwall but i have to agree, it doesn't really belong on a firewall.

Greg

A print server would be a good idea. I see some commercial routers with a built-in USB port for a printer connection. I am sure there are a lot of Monowall users who use generic standard PCs that have at least a few USB ports on them. It would be nice to use them.

I think this is not at all in the philosphy of m0n0. I am not a developper, but I think using USB driver, maintain this with the evolution of hardware (a lot of chip are released every year) would result in a bigger m0n0 image, slower boot time and more ressources utilisation...