On 9/12/2021 3:53 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 2021-09-11 16:14, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
Epson WP4530 once had a static IP. Perhaps now damaged by lightning in July. At any rate, nmap shows NO ip address for the printer, yet Windows 10 and Mint can write to it. How does that work?
Are you asking what the IP address is or are you asking why W/10 and Mint have smarts that nmap/openSuse don't have?
I'm asking what the ip address is, and why I can't find out. However, I certainly do note that Windows and Mint and perhaps other systems have and why such basic needs cannot be met by a sophisticated system like OpenSUSE Leap. (The nmap claims to be the same on both systems.) I might not have found the Windows facility without having to go to that confusing system in order to print things! How are these all connected?
Is this via a switch (possibly as part of your router) as the backbone device? Is it handing out addresses via DHCP? There is going to be some way to address the management function of the switch to get it to report what it thinks it has connected and why. Right now, I have not set any static ips, altho the HP printer might have one: 192.168.0.103.
Or, perhaps, there's a matter of a different subnet... Everything is connected by cable on the lan thru a "D-LINK DIR-632 wireless N 8-port routerwith an unused wireless function. Description is off the 'net.
I'm not at all familiar with the details of the lan operation--I don't know what subnets might exist or why, or how to find them if they do. With regard to wireless operations: I have been wiring these kind of connections since about 1985 or so and I trust them more than wireless, especially since I have an S9 noise level on the low ham bands. Yes, I've been at this for a while now, since CPM, and now I'm an old man and maybe not as sharp as I should be. . . . --doug