> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 4 10:28:17 2000
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: LPRng: BAD TRANSMITION on hp8100...
> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 12:10:27 -0400 (EDT)
> From: John Saroglou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> G'day all,
>
> Our HP8100 series line of printers are very busy processing thousands
> of jobs every day. Very frequently, we get "40 EIO 1 BAD TRANSMITION"
> error on the front pannels. To continue with printing, one must press
> the <GO> button; sometimes this results in data loss and is quite a
> concern for us.
>
> Now, the nature of this message indicates connection breakdown
> somwhere along the line between board->network card->cable none of
> which it turns out to be true, since we're running 3 HP8100 in
> parallel and we get this problem on all 3.
>
> I wonder if anyone has experienced this or has a plaussible
> explanation for such behaviour. The IDLE_TIMEOUT is set to 90 that
> should be more the enough for the connection to stay open.
NO NO NO!!! 90 seconds is NOT long enough - you need more like 5 minutes.
The connect has to stay open until ALL the job has been printed. And during
this time the &*())(*& HP does not honor the 'keepalive' packets, it wants
REAL DATA. I set mine to 600, which seems to be OK, unless, of course,
the thing goes into warmup mode.
>
> We're running LPRng-3.6.24 and ifhp-3.3.21.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -- John
>
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