[conspire] corrected to HP LaserJet4M Plus Re: HP LaserJet4 - CUPS lists printer twice

[Ruben Safir]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:03:16PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> 
> > I have all these old switches around and they are set to do no
> > firewalling and to allow all traffic, including broadcast.  What is
> > weird is that every once in a while, usually at an installfest, one of
> > them goes haywire and suddenly decides to block port 80 or some other
> > such stupidity.  I pull it out and throw another Synoptics spare in
> > and all is fine...and then a few months later if I put the old one
> > back, it works fine.  I should just replace them all with hubs.  I
> > hate switching.  JUST ROUTE and PASS THE PACKETS and get out of my
> > way..
> 
> Um... if your switches are _routing_, then that's the first thing you'll
> need to fix.  ;->
> 
> (There are switches that include layer 3 functions and thus perform some
> routing, but the ones you'll find in home LANs are link-layer, layer 2,
> and just pass ethernet frames around on the basis of their MAC
> addresses, without paying any attention to IP information.  A switch
> _qua_ switch operates on ethernet frames, not IP packets.)
> 
> 


Correct.  But this old hardware was pulled from wall street farms and is
capable or more...and that IS occasionally the problem.

BTW - what the hell can be more productive than spending time talking to
me?  Never mind...I don't want an answer to that.

Ruben
Correct.  But this old hardware was pulled from wall street farms and is
capable or more...and that IS occasionally the problem.

BTW - what the hell can be more productive than spending time talking to
me?  Never mind...I don't want an answer to that.

Ruben

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