On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:58:21 +0100 Brian <a...@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
