On Wednesday, 09/13/2006 at 12:17 EDT, Terrence Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A formerly reliable HP LJ 8150DN has suddenly, > "We haven't changed anything" they report, begun refusing connections: [snip] > Looking up that "54" doesn't advance the cause much: > > Message Code Description > ECONNRESET 54 Connection reset by peer. > > Anyone have any ideas on what might be wrong and how > to resolve it?
On the surface, the remote system doesn't like you and is closing its connection. It should have something in its logs, too, maybe. (Dunno how sophisticated the printer is...maybe it has a web interface that would be revealing?) There is a rare (?) situation that can occur when two hosts have the same IP address. The open is successful to the Good Host, but ARP caches are updated along the way and the Bad Host doesn't know anything about the packets, so it issues an RST, causing the local host to report ECONNRESET. A sniffer trace on the printer's LAN would reveal this condition and it would confirm that the printer is responsible. (This situation is "rare" because the interference has to occur after a successful open.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
