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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How does a printserver work ... Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 07:51:29 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL Lines: 48 Message-ID: <55kapp$k32@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <pg918qzy0e.fsf@theta.Microchip.COM> <5586mh$4da@anorak.coverform.lan> <55ekcg$be1@itchy.serv.net> <55f41a$9u4@newsbr.eunet.fr> <55jmf9$19l@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.107.196.155 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.tcp-ip:49082 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30578 brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) wrote: >In article <55f41a$9u4@newsbr.eunet.fr>, > Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) writes: >: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .) wrote: >: >>>In article <5586mh$4da@anorak.coverform.lan>, >>>Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>>>In article <pg918qzy0e.fsf@theta.microchip.com>, >>>> pancholi@theta.Microchip.COM (Vineet Pancholi) writes: >>>Even better, get a Jetdirect card for the HP ; I'm pretty sure >>>you can run TCP/IP and ipx simultaneously on the ether. >: In confirm you can: however, the number of actives interfaces provided >: by the JetDirect it depends on the printer in which you put it. For >We have a LJ5 (the big thing, about 3' by 3') in work with a JetDirect. >I could only get about 300 characters to it before the rest disappeared >down a black hole ! I was fairly sure at the time that they were going >to the printer (I hacked support for simultaneous ofilter & "rm"), and >had my filter saying Yep, I sent "these bytes" - but only a few hundred >ever made it to the printer. The JetDirect was supporting IPX printing >with no problems. The IP stuff didn't work under Sequent's Dynix >OS either..... Maybe you could try using a simple socket-based program to print to the LaserJet. This is what I made, becasue AIX at the time didn't have support for JetDirects. Instead of bothering with LPD access, you can use the telnet parallel port emulation, so the basic idea is: - initialize sockets (gethostbyXX, socket, - bind to port 9099 on TCP on the JetDirect's side. while - read PCL formatted file from the spool directory returns > 0 - write it to the socked endwhile shutdown and close socket Never seen any problem and I used that from various AIX versions, SCO 3.2.4.2, and various SunOSes, on LaserJets from the old LJ II to the LJ4 Si/MX. ------------------------- Frederic G. MARAND Agorus SA / OSI SARL Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr -------------------------