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Tracy,

Thanks for the suggestion .. That is what I told one of the CVS guys
here on site last night after about 1 hour or trying to run this down.

No, I know that these Ethernet cards can be flaky, but the ones in the
the printers here are OK.   I put the network assigned IP addresses
(which seem to be consistent no matter what I do) into NPCONFIG and I
can use the printers, however since the IP addresses are being assigned,
instead of the ones that I put in there, I can't rely on those remaining
the same and then printing would stop working.

I have been working with these things since 2000, when HP first released
them   I even went back and re-read all the emails exchanges that I had
with Paul Withers who was the LineJet expert for HP, but could not find
too much wisdom.   

At least it reminded me of using Telnet to look at the configs. 


--
Jim Alexander   Longs Drug Stores
Sr. Systems Programmer  925-210-6901
The opinions expressed are Mine and not Longs Drugs



-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Johnson, Tracy
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 7:58 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] LPQ500 line printer weirdness

If you are using the NIC that comes with the LQ500, you may have got a
flaky one.

If it is a bad one, it will reset at the slightest hiccup.

In such a case, better to switch to the parallel port and use an
external JetDirect box.

If you go this route you'll find when you take off the printer cover
they just hooked up a Centronix female plug onto a little NIC.  Just
unplug the Centronix cable and thread it through the alternate hole.

Tracy Johnson
Business Analyst
Measurement Specialties, Inc.
1000 Lucas Way
Hampton, VA 23666
Office 1-757-766-4318
[log in to unmask]
www.meas-spec.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jim Alexander
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:48 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] LPQ500 line printer weirdness
> 
> Me again .. More network switching fun.
> 
> I re-IPed  the two LineJet printers we have without issue, then I
> plugged them into the CVS switch and it has decided to server 
> up new IP
> addresses.   They are on the same segment, but just different 
> last octet
> values.
> 
> I have checked the printers, but using Telnet to get to the Ethernet
> Interface card and it does report that both BOOTP and RARP 
> (reverse ARP)
> are active.   
> 
> I don't find a way of turning this off.  You might notice from the
> listing that I am adding below, the OPTIONS show that while BOOTP and
> RARP are selected, the DHCP is not selected.    Still I find 
> nothing in
> the commands that tell me how I might turn this off.   
> 
> Here is a display of the TCP/IP output from the Telnet session:
> 
> *** tcpip (TCP/IP network)
> -- NETWORK INTERFACES
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> IFNUM  IP ADDRESS       NETMASK          HDW ADDRESS        OPTIONS
> FRAMETYPES
> 1      10.195.226.137   255.255.254.0    0:80:72:9:d7:65    
> br       e8
> 
> OPTIONS:                                 FRAMETYPES:
> b=bootp  r=rarp  d=dhcp                  e=ethernet2  8=802.2snap
> 
> -- TCP/IP ROUTING TABLE
> -------------------------------------------------------
> NETWORK          NETMASK          GATEWAY          IFNUM  
> METRIC  USAGE
> default          255.255.254.0    10.195.226.1     1      1       0
> 
> -- PROXY ARP TABLE
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> IP ADDRESS       NETMASK        
> 
> -- OPTIONS
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>         tcp rxwin: 2 MSS pkts
>       tcp options: keepalive (3 MINUTES)
>     ip forwarding: disabled
> 
> -- TCP ACCESS TABLE
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> NETWORK          NETMASK          LEVEL
> 
> 
> *** arp (ARP table contents)
> INTERNET          ETHERNET           FRAMETYPE     USE    TTL  COUNTER
> 10.195.226.1      0:24:14:ac:5e:0    ethernet2       1    600        2
> 10.195.226.26     0:60:b0:56:66:77   ethernet2       1    600      312
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Jim Alexander   Longs Drug Stores
> Sr. Systems Programmer  925-210-6901
> The opinions expressed are Mine and not Longs Drugs
> 
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