Re: VPN's and DTC's
- From: john pitman <jpitman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:07:20 +1000
We had frame relay all over Oz until early last year, with remote DTC and
line printers. Separatley had soicwall VPN for roaming travellers to get in
to email and 3000.
Frankly we were so relieved to get rid of frame and the bridging problems
that we never considered trying to get the DTCs to run over the vpn - we
wento a private IP network, with each office on its own subnet, and all
printers are now networked lasers, except a couple of serial devices in head
office.
You should find people are very receptive to lasers in most circumstances,
except where network devices wont work on mpe (impact and label printers
mostly), unless the new patch works as hoped. I recently set up a couple of
hp 2200dn lasers with double sided printing, and you should have seen the
users faces when they saw how much paper and storage reduction was possible,
compared to continuous 15x11 printouts.
For the impacts or label printers, we have set up a way to spool to a device
that doesn't exist, move the spool file to posix, ftp it to a pc and print
direct from the pc to the impact device. One job on 3000, table of device
and pc ip addresses for ftp, one scheduled print driver on the pc. To
provide soft copies of reports to users, one device has its spool files
stored and controlled by Bulletproof FTP server, which save heaps of paper
and time and $.
jp
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:HP3000-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim Phillips
Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2005 2:52 AM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] VPN's and DTC's
Okay, so thanks to the expert advice on this list, I
now have two VPN's up and running and I like them. I
like them a lot. In fact, I like them so much I am
considering replacing our frame relay networks with
VPN's. The only thing stopping me is that we have
spooled printers running off of DTC's at our other
locations, and I'm not sure how the DTC's would fare
if running over a VPN. These are the "dumb" DTC's (no
IP address) and we have bridging enabled on the frame
routers to enable to printer protocol to find them.
So, I'm wondering can DTC's run successfully over a
VPN? Or should I just chuck these old green-bar
printers and go to laser?
Jim Phillips
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