If your PC's and the printer are on the same subnet, remove the default
gateway from the printer and it will stop trying to access anything
outside of your local subnet.
DHSinclair wrote:
WAN link is up! List mail is delivered where I need it!
The LAN seems happy! Even Eudora seems to work!
Life is good ATM. Well,............ :)
Glitch: Every 10 minutes or so my router posts a log entry that says:
Access denied to LAN system w/MAC address 00xxx......"
Got log files with lots of these........
The MAC address is my Brother printer! (and this took me 2 days to
figure out...... :))
I read this as my printer trying to connect to the WAN, maybe. Like
trying to 'phone home.'
Can I admin the printer to stop whatever LAN calls it may be
raising?
The printer is a Brother 2070N. It does have a
print server built in. Yes, I do have all my LAN machines
talking/printing to it via individual tcp/ip ports focused at
the printer's new IP addy. All seems to work AOK.
I do have Brother's latest BR Admin SW loaded to my server.
I do notice that when I look at the tcp/ip tab of the print server,
there are several modules/protocols checked that I do not
yet know why they may need to be as they are.
Yes, I have already disabled Brother's APIPA business (Automatic
Private IP Addressing). DHCP in the print server is also disabled.
All comments, suggestions gratefully accepted. I am stumpted.
I have not yet figured out how to get the printer to spit out that
odd-reading tcp/ip tab....
Thank you.
Best,
Duncan
