knitti wrote:

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> On 10/19/07, Stephen Bosch  wrote:

>> Other things I've tried:

>>

>> - moving the Jetdirect to a different port on the same physical switch

>> - a variety of static and dynamic IPs in the subnet

>>

>> I also forwarded the external port 9100 to this print server and tried

>> to access it from a public host, but this didn't work either.

>>

>> This leads me to suspect a peculiar interaction between OpenBSD 4.1 and

>> this particular print server. Of course, it might well be the fault of

>> HP's IP stack, but I've already talked to them at great length and got

>> pretty much nowhere: "We don't support JetDirect over WAN connections."

>

> look with tcpdump, whether the packets of the printserver look like you expect.

> perhaps it only has a ttl of 1 or 2 ;-)

No -- the damn thing is doing ARP for the remote address, even though it

has a gateway configured.
The stupid thing is that this same model of printer works on another

network, same configuration -- except the local VPN endpoint is a SonicWall.
-Stephen-