Setting ip a d-link DP-100 device on AIX 4.3.3

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I need to set up a serial printer on our Bull Escala system running the above os. I have entered the ip address and hostname in the /etc/hosts file. However with the serial printer connected to port 3 (Serial / LPT3) im unsure as to how to tell smit that.

If anyone has encountered this before and solved it, can you please advise.

Many thanks
Julian

 

[Chapter11]

A serial printer won't have its own IP address.

You'll access it as a unix printer at the AIX machine's IP.

 

[aixqueen]

Chapter 11 is correct if it is in a native serial port on the back of the machine...
there is no IP

Unless you are talking a device like the hpex3 with three ports on the network and the printer is a parallel printer attached to this device? You said serial...is it a term server type device?

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/aix.techTips?refNo=92031853517564

The PORT value should be 9100 for normal HP JetDirect printers, and 9101 for HP JetDirect EX3 port 2, and 9102 for port 3.

How to Set Up a Jet Direct EX3 printer
Setting up remote queues using the Jet Direct Cards and boxes that support
printing to the lpd.

1. The queue name to use as the queue on a HP is 'text' for unformatted data,
and 'raw' for formatted data. The 'test' queue, will add carriage returns to line
feeds so you don't have to set up a double queue, unless you want to do other
special formatting.

2. Support for the HP Jet Direct Ex3
The Ex3 box has three parallel ports. The normal 'piojetd' software is hard
coded to use port1. This port has a tcp/ip port number of 9100 as the old
cards and boxes. The other ports have addresses of 9101 and 9102. We do
not have a supported program for driving these as local queues at this time.

These boxes support the lpd protocol, and the individual ports can be
addressed by setting up remote queues, giving the queue name on the server
as: text1 or raw1 for port1, text2 or raw2 for port 2, and text 3 or raw3 for
port3. The text ports add carriage returns to line feeds and work fine for
straight text files. In this way 3 printers can be driven at once.

CAUTION: There are problems when the EX3 box is busy, and the queue may
go down: Apparently this may be fixed by telnetting to the EX3 and issuing
the command: 'turbo 0:". but I have not seen it work yet. We have not tested
this completely at this time and this is a suggestion, not a SUPPORTED
procedure. Another HP support person said that instead of turbo0: that the
command is "lpd-turbo 0:" This essentially turns the device into a single
conversation at a time device.
Example to print to port 2:

Change show characteristics of a Queue

Name of queue: p2
Queing Discipline first come first serve
Activate queue yes
Accounting File False
Destination Host for remote jobs hpex3
Short Form Filter /usr/lpd/aixshort
Log Form /usr/lpd/aixlong
Name of Queue on remote text2