Need help with an old networked printer

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

arp is your friend.  run tcpdump, you'll probably see it.  If you know the mac address of the nic in it already.  you can run 'arping' against it.  Unfortunately, the arping included in the standard linux utilities wont help you that much.  The way it works is it pings a ip address and returns the mac address.  What you want is the arping that allows you to ping the macaddress and get the ip address.  You can find it at:

http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/programs.php

This will atleast let you find the ip, if its set.  Many printer nic's seem to have a telnet server that allows you to configure it.  Hope that helps.  Good luck.

-miah

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:49:38PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> I just got a DEC LN17PS laser printer *very* cheap.  It has duplex printing, 
> envelope printing, and a network card.  I want to set up CUPS on my Red hat 
> 7.3 box to talk to it.  The problem is, I can't figure out how to see/change 
> the IP address of the network card.
> 
> I cannot find an online manual for this thing, and the ethernet config menu on 
> it does not mention IP addresses.  I found references to it talking on port 
> 2501, but that's it.
> 
> PS- This is supposed to be the same thing as the Xeron 4517 (it uses the Xerox 
> LN17 engine) and the IBM Network Printer 17.
> 
> BTW, I tried running tcpdump on my server's intranet card then turning the 
> printer on, and saw activity that I simply cannot interpret.  For a sample 
> see http://thekramers.net/tmp/decoutput.txt
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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