Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:53:29 +0200
Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Reco a écrit :
> >
> > You do not need to guess here. Run tcpdump at your laptop, power cycle
> > the printer. As long as you see requests to 0.0.0.0 udp port 67 - the
> > printer uses DHCP for configuration.
>
> /To/ 0.0.0.0 ? AFAIK, 0.0.0.0 is not a valid destination address, and
> DHCP requests are sent to the broadcast address 255.255.255.255.
>
> 0.0.0.0 is the client source address until it obtains an IP address from
> the server.
My mistake, thank you for the correction.
Reco
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