Using IPX with HP4-Jetdirect

[Jan-Willem Heerink]

I need to upgrade my jetdirect card using IPX
The HP download manager asks for a IPX adress
on the printer in the form of AAAAAA.OOOOOOOO
or the like.
any one ideas how to install the printer on usng IPX (Novell ?)
and then how to find out the IPX adress of this machine?
(Under TCP/IP it will not install the update the card, it connects
but does not start the actual upgrading process)

JW

[Wolfgang Tonheim]

Hi Jan,

the IPX-address is a logical network-number which is defined by a
configuration file (autoexec.ncf) during the bootup of a NOVELL-server.
There are two types of it, a internal number for each server, for
example: A0100 (a hexadecimal number, base 16: using numbers 0 through 9
and letters A through F) and a number which identifies the connected
cabling system. Each lan driver must be assigned the network number, for
example: A0101. If you are using multiple frames with your LAN drivers,
you should assign a network number for each frame type.

... hope this is helping a little bit

tot ziens, Wolfgang

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[RollTide]

Using IPX on Novell, the first set of numbers is the "Network Address" and
the 2nd set is the MAC address of the jet direct, entered in the form:
19216888 : 00abcdef1234

The network address depends on the subnet you have the jet direct on.
At work, most of our stuff coming out of the router is on the 000000E3
network.
Everything else (remote sites connecting via core-builders) is a combo of
the actual subnet, such as 192.168.188.xxx giving a network address of
19216888 on the wire.

Depending on how old the jet direct is, you should be able to flash it
using IP.
Are you sure you have the correct firmware version for your jet direct?

Hope this wasn't too confusing.

R0LLTIDE
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[iskowitz]

Doesn't the Download manager have an Auto discovery Feature which should
find the ipx address if the printer is connected to the Computer. I
thought the last part ofthe IPX address was the physical Hardware address
printed somewhere on the network card itself.
Just some thought Stu
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