Perle Systems 5500161-40 manual Setting Up Printers, Remote Printing Using LPD

Setting Up Printers

6.Next you need to create a gateway and destination route entry. Select Network, Advanced, and the Route List tab.

For the destination, if you want the connection to be able to reach any host in the remote network, set the Type to Network and specify the network IP address and subnet/prefix bits; if you want the connection to go directly to a specific remote host, set the Type to Host and specify the host’s IP address.

We want a specific host to the be destination, so we configured the Type as Host:

We also need to create a Gateway entry using the same PPP IPv4 local IP address. Any traffic that goes through the gateway will automatically cause PPP to dial out:

Setting Up Printers

The IOLAN can communicate with printers on its serial ports using LPD and RCP protocols, as well as print handling software using TCP/IP.

Remote Printing Using LPD

When setting up a serial line that access a printer using LPD, do the following:

1.Set the serial port to Printer and configure the Speed, Flow Control, Stop Bits, Parity, and Bits parameters so that they match the printer’s port settings.

2.Save your settings and restart the serial port.

3.Verify that LPD has been configured on the network host. To configure LPD on the network host, you need to know the name or IP address of the IOLAN and the print queue, either raw_p<port_number> for a raw data connection or ascii_p<portnumber> for an ASCII character connection. You can optionally append _d or _f to the queue name to add a <control d> or <form feed> to the end of the print job.

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