Re: the marriage of wireless and wireful
Or... your printer doesn't have its default gateway set, if the /24 mask
doesn't help.
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:34:11PM -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Naturally the problem would be at the end. It's in the printer. You report
> it configured as follows:
>
> >[The printer network hardware -- it's an HP JetDirect 170x]
> >
> > IP = 192.168.0.250
> >netmask = 255.255.0.0
> >gateway = 192.168.0.1
>
> which means it thinks that 192.168.1.10 is local, since you gave it a 16-bit
> netmask. So it receives the ping request and tries to arp a local host to
> respond to instead of using the gateway. Fix: change the printer's netmask
> from /16 to /24.
>
> At 04:45 AM 8/31/00 +0000, Paul Phillips wrote:
> ...
> > eth0 is 192.168.0.1 (wired network)
> > ppp0 is w.x.y.z (connects to Internet via roaring penguin's PPPoE)
> > wvlan0 is 192.168.1.1 (wireless network)
> >
> >She is running potato, kernel 2.2.17pre20, pcmcia 3.1.19. Hosts on the
> >wireless network can get everywhere OK except for the printer on the wired
> >network. From apollo I can reach everything fine, including the printer.
> >
> >I thought some strange ipchain was stopping me but that doesn't appear to
> >be it. I think now it's some routing thinko on my part but I can't find it.
> >So I throw myself upon the mercy of your collective brainpower. Why can't
> >192.168.1.10 get a ping response from 192.168.0.250? (Or otherwise reach it,
> >IOW it's not ICMP-specific.) Snooping the network interfaces on apollo
> >shows that the ICMP echo request is being received on wvlan0 and delivered
> >on eth0, but then it disappears.
> [diagnoztic detail deleted]
>
>
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