Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1848
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:25 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600

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Saturday 15 August 2009
 Number  1848
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  Network printer : Peter Moylan <peter at pmoylan dot org>

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Date:  Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:43:53 +1000
From:  Peter Moylan <peter at pmoylan dot org>
Subject:  Re:  Network printer

Peter L Allen wrote:
> Printer needs to be set to????
> For instance?
> IP address 	192.168.1.40
> Subnet 		255.255.255.0
> and would Gateway be IP of the router?
> 	eg	192.168.1.1
>
> This stuff makes my head hurt - plan to get it going on doze first - then the real stuff.
>   
Don't forget to look at the documentation for your router. For some, the 
gateway address is at 10.0.0.1. For others, it is 192.168.0.1. The one 
I'm using now (a Billion router) has its address set at 192.168.1.254. 
The rules do change from one manufacturer to another, so it's important 
to check what addresses your router is using.

If your router is genuinely at address 192.168.1.1, then 192.168.1.40 is 
certainly a plausible address for the printer. As a general rule, if the 
router has address 192.168.A.B, then addresses of the form 192.168.A.x 
will be part of your LAN.

A lot of confusion can be resolved by using the "ping" command.
[C:\TCPIP\java]ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1: 56 data bytes

----192.168.0.1 PING Statistics----
8 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% pack

[C:\TCPIP\java]ping 192.168.1.254
PING 192.168.1.254: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: icmp_seq=0. time=0. ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: icmp_seq=1. time=0. ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: icmp_seq=2. time=0. ms

This tells me that address 192.168.1.254 is responding, therefore it 
must be an address on our LAN.

-- 
Peter Moylan                          peter at pmoylan dot org
                                      http://www.pmoylan dot org

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