I have a situation which happened on my Suns's under Solaris V2.4 and I have 
now replicated it on my NetBSD boxes. Sun was less than helpful so I thought 
I might try here ;-)

I have a Xyplex Terminal server with a few HP printers hanging off the unit. 
The Xyplex server provides LPD services and each port on the terminal server 
with a printer attached gets a different queue name, When I set these up 
under printcap on NetBSD all works great, until one of the printers is 
off-line or out of paper etc. The NetBSD box will not send print jobs to any 
printers on that server as it appears if one queue is down at an IP address 
it thinks all queues associated with that address are down. Once that 
printer has it's paper refilled etc. all queues start up again. I know it's 
not a terminal server problem as our VAXen running VMS and Multinet LPD/LPR 
still print fine to the queue's which are not out of paper etc. on that 
server.

Anyone seen this before ? Are there any add on packages for Sun and/or 
NetBSD  which will replace the standard BSD and/or SVR4 lp utilities and not 
have this restriction ? The Sun queue's are my real concern at the moment so 
that package does not have to work with NetBSD right away.

scott
scott.burns@labatt.com