On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Patrick Powell wrote: PP> Well, I have just found out that a whole line of printers returns PP> bogus SNMP status. It appears that the SNMP status is not updated in PP> a timely manner, and can be 3-4 seconds out of date with the printer PP> status.
Maybe establish a list of good and bad printers? Canon sucks as they return bugus SNMP answers. Their own technicians and sales people confirm this. I wish I would have taped and made Oggs of their surrender and apology that they suck on RFC compliance. HP sucks as they do not save page counter state at power off. (Why not have a condensator to power the last write to EEPROM? Why are you so stupid HP? Aren't you engineers? Or is there only sales people left?) Xerox looking good so far with the models I have tested. RFC (Printer MIB) compliance word by word. So the only way to go is to refuse to buy bad printers. Force the manufacturers to clean up their act if they need to. Let the dollar work for you. Hopefully many of the engineers on this list can, like I did, influence and control what printers their organizations buy. Henrik ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
