Fastcnfg Device Attributes For Tcp/Ip Direct Connections To Dumb Serial Printers - HP Spooler FASTP Manual

Installation and Configuration Considerations for
FASTPTCP
FASTCNFG DEVICE Attributes for TCP/IP Direct Connections to
Dumb Serial Printers
A TCP/IP direct connection to a printer or server is the simplest to configure. Typically,
a TCP/IP direct connection connects to dumb serial printers on a terminal server or to
a network print server that does not employ TELNET or any other protocol. A TCP/IP
direct connection uses a CONTYPE value of TCP/IP and a PROTOCOL value of
NONE. The minimal FASTCNFG DEVICE entry needed for a TCP/IP direct connection
is as follows:
DEVICE device-name
CONTYPE
PROTOCOL
ADDRESS
PORT
Optional DEVICE Attributes for TCP/IP Direct Connections to
Dumb Serial Printers
In addition, the DEVICE entry can contain any of the optional attributes for all
FASTPTCP devices as described in
Devices on page 3-18 and the following optional attributes:
SHUTDOWNTO=n
specifies the time (in 10-millisecond units) that FASTPTCP should wait for a
session shutdown to complete. Values can be up to 8640000 (24 hours); the
default value is 0.
When PROTOCOL=NONE, at the end of a print job FASTPTCP causes TCP/IP to
send a FIN packet to the remote device. The remote device is expected to respond
with a FIN within the SHUTDOWNTO interval for normal job completion. If FIN is
not received, the job is requeued to the Spooler. The value specified for
SHUTDOWNTO must be large enough to handle cases where the printer is out of
paper, offline, or otherwise backed up. Typical values are from 180000 (30
minutes) to 720000 (2 hours). Although the default value of 0 is compatible with
previous FASTPTCP product versions, change this value if any problems occur.
Note, SHUTDOWNTO only applies to the G06.10 and D48.02 RVUs and later, and
the value specified for SHUTDOWNTO should be equal to or greater than the
value for TIMEOUT.
SLOWPACE = slow-interval
specifies the time (in 10-millisecond units) that FASTPTCP should wait at job end
before reporting to the Spooler supervisor that the job is complete. Values can be
up to 12000 (2 minutes). The SLOWPACE specification is optional and can
adversely affect performance so use it with caution.
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FASTCNFG DEVICE Attributes for TCP/IP Direct
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= TCP/IP
= NONE
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= ip-address
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= ip-port
Optional DEVICE Attributes for All FASTPTCP
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Connections to Dumb Serial Printers