On 2001.04.10 23:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 9 > Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 00:50:43 -0400 > From: "Anthony E . Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compaq Pagemarq 15 network configuration > That database only has three Compaq printers (IJ750, IJ900, IJ300). > > Tony > -- Yeah, I finally got through using IE from a Win98 box. Not sure what the issue with Galeon/Mozilla 0.8 is with that cgi. Anyway, last night I plugged an ethernet cable into the printer and disconnected the parallel cable - then put a NIC into promiscuous mode and started up tethereal. Sure enough, the printer is there babbling away to the net - but it's speaking IPX, asking for the nearest server. Looking through the IPX section of the _Linux Network Administrator's Guide_, it seemed like it would be pretty simple to set up an IPX gateway on one of my machines, and have that machine act as a print server for the rest of the LAN. This would allow me to put the printer anywhere on the network without worrying about having a box right next to it - the Pagemarq printers are quite large so it needs to be off by itself somewhere. If anyone on the list has some IPX experience, pointers would be helpful. I have two questions now: At first glance, a question not clearly addressed in any of my references is whether or not I can have a single NIC configured to send/receive 'normal' TCP/IP traffic and IPX traffic *at the same time*. The books imply that this is possible, but do not explicitly say it anywhere. Secondly, I can't get the IPX source code from Caldera to compile. Are there special tricks to get IPX on RedHat (a certain set of rpms to install, etc.)? Cheers, James _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
