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Re: Vague JetDirect Problem
From: Randy Witlicki <randy.witlicki () valley net>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:23:30 -0400
Our pal Dean wrote:
...<snip>... connects to via fiber to the MDF ....
What's an MDF ?
.... Our building, in which a couple dozen workstations connect to one of two daisy-chained hubs, connects to via fiber to the MDF in another building where several dozen workstations are more efficiently connecting to switches. The JetDirect is connected to one of those two chained hubs in our building....
..<snip>..
The JetDirect's configured gateway is the internal IP of the firewall. Now, folks at the remote building (site of the MDF, et al.) can print to our device. We can print from our building to devices at the remote building. But we can't print to our device. (The printer never produces the job which remains as a pending job according to the printer's status.) The network print server is a host connected to the switches mentioned above. Is the gateway configuration--which is the same for all successfully operating JetDirects on the network--feeding the data by default to the PIX? Is the PIX possibly trashing the data?
If you are on the same ethernet segment and have the same IP network address as everybody else on the local ethernet segment, then the gateway should be irrelevant. If you picture: ----- X.X.X.*---|router|---Y.Y.Y.*----|router|---all other IP addresses If your PC and the JetDirect printer are on the X.X.X.* network and *both* have X.X.X.* IP addresses and the correct subnet mask, then the gateway never gets involved with these packets. JetDirects can also handle multiple protocols including Netware IPX queues, which mode are you using ? If there is a Netware queue involved in another building, then this could be a cause of the problem. When you say "The network print server is a host connected to the switches mentioned above" does that mean that all print data traffic goes to a print server device and then to the printer ? More details needed. I think it this is probably not a firewall issue since it is all part of your internal network, unless there are security filters on the internal routers. - Randy -
Current thread:
- Vague JetDirect Problem wpl1 (Sep 11)
- Re: Vague JetDirect Problem Randy Witlicki (Sep 14)
- RE: Vague JetDirect Problem Joe Ippolito (Sep 18)
- RE: Vague JetDirect Problem Michael A. Traffanstead (Sep 14)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- re: RE: Vague JetDirect Problem MHurlburt (Sep 18)
- Re: Vague JetDirect Problem Randy Witlicki (Sep 14)