RE: Getting a HP Jetdirect to work through routers

You need to define the printers as remote printers. Use the ip address of the jetdirect as the "host" and "raw1" or "text1" for the first port of the jetdirect. There isn't a problem routing that over Cisco.

Hope that helps,

Alistair Rooney
Software Engineer
Tibbett & Britten Africa
+27 31 2047701
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Vicker, CCP [mailto:rvicker@vicker.com]
Sent: 15 August 2001 15:43
To: Midrange List
Subject: Getting a HP Jetdirect to work through routers

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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