‘Urro… Ay, the %eth* is a trap… First time I saw that it took ages to find the solution on the interwebs. :-)
What distro are you using? A while ago RedHat EL6 had an issue where the default package for cups didn’t have IPv6 enabled at compile / config time.. Might be that your cups doesn’t support IPv6 at all? Can you telnet to the localhost CUPS admin port? (631 I think? bit vague on that, and feeling google-lazy. :-) ) Cheers, Chris H. > On 1/03/2015, at 6:33 pm, Ross Drummond <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK I can telnet into the printer over IPV6 and the characters I type > into the telnet window are printed in plain text by the printer when I > close the session. > > Just as a bye the bye when you are using telnet with a ipv6 link local > address you need to specify the interface; > > telnet fe80::200:74ff:xxx:xxxx%eth0 9100 > > I will try to print from other hosts and let you know progress tomorrow > > Cheers Ross Drummond > > > On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 16:07:12 +1300 > Chris Hellyar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 'Urro.. >> >> Did both workstation and printer pick up link-local addresses? >> (fe80:*) >> >> Is the workstation running any ip6tables rules? >> >> As a very broad statement, for local network stuff ipv6 has 'just >> worked' for me so far, so it's down to the basics.. You can ping, but >> can you telnet to port 9100 on the printer etc. Can you enable ipv6 >> on another device and see if it can ping/telnet/print? >> >> Cheers, Chris H. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
