This article contains information on using a Hewlett-Packard (HP) JetDirect card to allow an HP LaserJet to talk directly to the network when there is more than one NIC in the server to segment the LAN.

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When there are two or more network interface cards to segment the LAN, the HPRDIR talks only to one of them. The Remoteboot protocol COMTOKR can be bound to all cards. Only printers connected to the first NIC with COMTOKR bound to it will print; but HP LaserJets with JetDirect cards installed and connected to the server through other NICs in the server will not.

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Example

For example, the server has two IBM token ring cards and one Ethernet card. COMTOKR can bind to up to eight NDIS drivers--either Ethernet or token ring.

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PROTOCOL.INI

; Note: NetBEUI and/or TCP/IP sections omitted here for simplicity.

[COMTOKR_XIF]
   drivername = COMTOKR$
   bindings = "IBMTOK_NIF", "IBMTOK2_NIF", "ELNKII_NIF"

[IBMTOK_NIF]
   drivername = IBMTOK$

[IBMTOK2_NIF]
   drivername = IBMTOK2$

[ELNKII_NIF]
   drivername = ELNKII$
				

In this example, HPREDIR communicates only through the first IBM token ring adapter (IBMTOK_NIF). To have HPREDIR operate over the second token ring adapter or the Etherlink II adapter, you must edit PROTOCOL.INI so that the appropriate driver appears first in the [COMTOKR_XIF] bindings line.

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