Re: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 15 October 2015 21:58:21 Brian 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.

Thanks.

Lisi