Setting Up a Printer

The Printer Setup Screen (Figure 4.56) lets you set up your firewall to use a printer, either locally attached or accessible via the network. The printer can be used to print any files of interest using the lp command, as well as for echoing of log messages (via log filters) and printing graphs of log activity. The fields in the screen are:

  

Figure 4.56: The Printer Setup Screen

Printer Type

This toggle field lets you choose what type of printer you have. Available choices include `Dumb LP' for a generic dumb printer, `PostScript' for a generic PostScript printer, and a few others for some common types of printers.

Remote Server

If the printer is not attached to the parallel printer port (UNIX device /dev/lpt0) on the firewall, then this field is used to specify the remote print server host. Print jobs will be sent to the remote server using the UNIX `lpd' protocol.

Remote Printer

If the printer is not attached locally, this field lets you specify the printer name to use when requesting print jobs from the remote print server.