printer problem

[Andrew Gould]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:

>
> I have a network printer using LPD. When I *manually* telnet to that
> printer at LPD port, then the printer does ACK to my SYN packet and start
> receiving data.
>
> When I use CUPS to print, then the printer does not acknowledge the tcp SYN
> packets at all.
>
> They are just TCP connections, how does the printer know ? :(
> Below is my tcpdump:
> All packets before 14:24:54 are from my manual telnet.
> All packets after 14:25:06 are from CUPS.
> Pluto is my server, 192.168.1.110 is the printer
>
> As you can see, CUPS attempted to send SYN packets but does not get ACKED.
>
> I can only see the difference of the source ports, but does the printer
> care about that ?
>
> -------------- start of tcpdump -------
> [root at jetco ~]# tcpdump host 192.168.1.110
> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
> listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
> 14:24:50.555796 IP pluto.51602 > 192.168.1.110.printer: S
> 3462708113:3462708113(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 2>
> 14:24:50.764192 IP 192.168.1.110.printer > pluto.51602: S
> 3520144456:3520144456(0) ack 3462708114 win 4096 <mss 1452,nop,wscale 0>
> 14:24:50.764207 IP pluto.51602 > 192.168.1.110.printer: . ack 1 win 1460
> 14:24:54.396898 IP pluto.51602 > 192.168.1.110.printer: F 1:1(0) ack 1 win
> 1460
> 14:24:54.409157 IP 192.168.1.110.printer > pluto.51602: . ack 2 win 4380
> 14:24:54.409700 IP 192.168.1.110.printer > pluto.51602: F 1:1(0) ack 2 win
> 4380
> 14:24:54.409714 IP pluto.51602 > 192.168.1.110.printer: . ack 2 win 1460
>
>
>
> 14:25:06.560950 IP pluto.731 > 192.168.1.110.printer: S
> 3473251429:3473251429(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 2>
> 14:25:09.560695 IP pluto.731 > 192.168.1.110.printer: S
> 3473251429:3473251429(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 2>
> 14:25:15.560267 IP pluto.731 > 192.168.1.110.printer: S
> 3473251429:3473251429(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK,nop,wscale 2>
> -------------- end of tcpdump -------
>
> Any advice, please  ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vu
> _______________________________________________


Doesn't CUPS use IPP port by default?  Could this be the problem?

Andrew
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