Re: Getting a HP Jetdirect to work through routers

Dear Roger,

You might want to execute the command CFGTCP on your IBM host and then
choose option 2 Work with TCP/IP Routes. You should see something that looks
like the following when you press enter:

                            Work with TCP/IP Routes
                                                             System:
S102G6VM
 Type options, press Enter.
   1=Add   2=Change   4=Remove   5=Display

      Route            Subnet           Next             Preferred
 Opt  Destination      Mask             Hop              Interface

      *DFTROUTE        *NONE            10.10.5.1        *NONE

In your case the *DFTROUTE value should point towards the Cisco router at IP
Address 10.2.0.254. The OS/400 value *DFTROUTE is used to tell an IBM
iSeries or AS/400 server where to send all requests to contact IP addresses
that are not visible to the server on its local segment. You can add other
routing entries that specify certain address ranges and a different IP
address as the next hop as necessary.

HTH

/Paul
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>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:42:45 -0500
>From: "Roger Vicker, CCP" <rvicker@vicker.com>
>Organization: Vicker Programming Systems
>To: Midrange List <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>Subject: Getting a HP Jetdirect to work through routers
>Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>
>Hello,
>
>I am having trouble getting some HP Jetdirect servers to work with an
>AS/400 through routers. The AS/400 is working with Jetdirects on its
>local network (CRTDEVPRT *HPT) but when I use the same process through
>routers the writer times out after about 3 minutes and the spool file
>never changes from RDY. Sprint claims that they didn't block any ports
>in the routers.
>
>The layout is:
>
>AS/400 @ 10.0.0.1 mask 255.255.0.0 on an otherwise Novel network
>Cisco router @ 10.0.0.254
>Frame Relay by Sprint
>Cisco router @ 10.2.0.254
>Local peer to peer (Windows xxxx) network 10.2.#.# mask 255.255.0.0
>but with a WINS server @ 10.2.1.57
>The AS/400 has the WINS tab pointed to the local WINS server.
>
>CAE and file server works OK. Local PCs can use the Jetdirects. The
>AS/400 can ping the Jetdirects by address and the CRTDEVPRT uses the
>address, not a host name.
>
>Where do I look next?
>
>Roger Vicker, CCP
>
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