Document which settings the script expects on the printer

sedrubal / brother_printer_fwupd

Script to update the firmware of some Brother printers

https://pypi.org/project/brother_printer_fwupd/

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Document which settings the script expects on the printer #13

Open darix opened 1 year ago

darix commented 1 year ago

e.g. it expects SNMP to be enabled and configured with snmp v2c. A security focused person might set this to v3 or have the service off completely. which of the other services in network -> network -> protocol does it actually use for uploading the firmware file?

sedrubal commented 1 year ago

Yes, we should document the required protocols and the script should notify if one required protocol is not enabled. AFAIK we use

zeroconf / mdns to find the printer which is optional
SMTP v2c for querying the model information
pdl-datastream (port 9100) to upload the firmware to the printer

Currently, I don't have access to a brother printer and can't check the naming of the protocols that is used by brother to write informative messages. Do you want to open a pull request?