We've just migrated some boxes to a different location and left a DTC,
modems, terminals and serial spooled line printers where they were.  It
isn't a big deal but you have to enable bridging on the routers.  It has
worked successfully over a 128 Frame Relay circuit that carries additional
routed traffic.  I found the instructions for bridging on this list.
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                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Steve Widmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   Thursday, December 03, 1998 10:54 PM
                To:     [log in to unmask]
                Subject:        printer migration

                o' mighty Mimir of HP3000 knowledge:

                One of our manufacturing environments (for which I've
recently become
                responsible) relies on an application that runs on an MPE/V
box.   We will
                be migrating their account & everything in it to an XL box,
located in a
                different building.

                We are warming up the migration effort and I'm not sure what
to do with the
                model 2563A printers that are directly connected (DTCs(?)),
I believe
                serially, to the classic box (located in a different
building from both the
                classic & XL boxes).

                The XL box that this account will be migrated to already
prints (via IP) to
                HP LJ printers with onboard JetDirect cards.   While there
are some (i
                presume) upgradeable HPLJ printers out in our site, the
DTC(?) printers are
                causing me pause.  Our options, as I see 'em, are:

                - switchover the DTC's to the new box (downtime for users, 1
more critical
                path switchover item, totally unfamiliar with related issues
including
                whether this is possible)

                - stick a serial->parallel converter in front of each impact
printer, then
                a jet direct box between the converter & the XL box, and add
an LDEV and a
                line in NPCONFIG

                - stick Intel Netport boxes between impact printers and XL
box and use
                something like Minisoft's NetPrint/92 (which we can use for
free)

                - buy new JetDirect printers

                note: any purchases must be done with budget money allocated
for something
                else, but will be done if justified by cost of ownership.

                Best suggestion gets an 'ir+' baseball cap + recognition, or
just the
                recognition.

                TIA,
                Steve