[GTALUG] Continuing Printer Woes

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| On 2020-06-03 2:21 p.m., Peter King via talk wrote:

| > Why this
| > is *easier* with wireless than it is with a direct connection I couldn't
| > say
| 
| There's much less software between you and the printer when you use IPP. Much
| less to go wrong.

Thanks Stewart!

I don't like putting printers on my network.  Sure, it is convenient.
But I don't control their network security.  They don't have a
firewall that I can examine and configure.  They are rather
promiscuous.

IPv6 could make this worse since it eliminates the security crutch of
NAT.  Any good firewall should catch this.

When it comes to a choice between convenience and security, you can
guess what wins.  One of our printers is on our LAN.