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Chapter 24 UNIX Configuration

UNIX Printing through TCP/IP

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Introduction
This section explains how to configure the network interface card and your network for use with TCP/IP com-
munication in various UNIX environments. Independent setup and installation procedures are provided for
most popular UNIX systems.
The TCP/IP capability of the network interface card will also operate with lpr spoolers on other systems, and
with spooler/supervisor capabilities that communicate raw print jobs to the TCP/IP port of the network inter-
face card. This port number is 10001.
The network interface card can support UNIX TCP/IP printing in two modes:
• Host-based where a supplied line printer daemon is run on one or more workstations and print data is
• Printer-based lpd where the print controller appears as a host running a line printer daemon.
Many operating systems provide the option of using host-resident printing or printer-resident printing.
In general, printer-based lpd is easier to use on BSD UNIX systems. This requires an entry in the printcap
file once the network interface card has its IP information. Some UNIX System V systems have restrictions
on support of remote lpd printers, requiring that the host-based lpd approach be used.
Each printing mode has certain advantages over the other mode, as follows:
• The host-resident method can print the username and filename on its banner page; whereas the
• The printer-resident method requires you to configure the print controller and the network interface
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol for network management services. SNMP is sup-
ported for Management Information Base (MIB) II over the IP for the network interface card. This support allows
you to query MIB II to get system information about the network interface card.
communicated to the network interface card via a TCP/IP port.
printer-resident method prints a banner page with the host's name.
card only one time, when you install the network interface card; whereas, the host-resident method
requires that a printing daemon be installed on every host that you want to be able to print jobs.
The network interface card will also operate with other host-resident print supervisor/spooler programs that present
a print image to the print controller over a TCP/IP port.
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