Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:58:21 +0100
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 15 Oct 2015 at 21:44:56 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 15 October 2015 21:38:16 Brian wrote:
> > > No you don't. You only have change the printers's setup to match
> > > the network it is on. You know how to do that with telnet.
> >
> > Brian -
> >
> > Could you give some hints as to how two separate devices can share
> > one IP without some sort of routing?
>
> It isn't a matter of sharing one IP but of being on the same network
> in order to communicate. From an earlier post we have
>
> Through Control Panel, I learned that the computer had ip address
> 192.168.100.3. The HP2100 printed a configuration report which
> indicated an ip address of 192.168.1.201
>
> It seems that the consensus is that 192.168.1.201 is a fixed IP for
> the printer. We will go with that.
>
> If the printer is to communicate with the computer it needs to have an
> IP like 192.168.100.3.201. Change its IP with telnet. A moment's job.
>
I assume that was a typo. I believe Windows does allow multiple IP
addresses on one adaptor, but I haven't tried it, and I suspect MS
would describe it as 'unsupported'. If you move the printer into the
192.168.3. network there must be a risk than another customer of the
same ISP will be given whatever address you choose.
--
Joe
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