Every networked printer I have seen has a report function that will print out a configuration report showing what IP address it is using.
Michael On Dec 9, 2017 13:33, "Mke C>" <mconno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12/09/2017 12:00 PM, plug-requ...@pdxlinux.org wrote: > >> Because I have a Brother laser printer that is giving me grief and I >> failed to put a label on it with its IP address (which is my normal >> practice for printers). >> >> Any suggestions welcome.:) >> > > I'm not exactly sure what you're tying to accomplish of or if this > helpful, but it should be pretty quick & easy to figure out the printers ip > addr without > having to login to your OpenWRT router. > > You can either get the MAC addr OUI, Organizational Unique Identifier from > a tag on the printer itself or you can look it up on the web, > https://www.adminsub.net/mac-address-finder/Brother . It's the first 6 > alphanumeric characters. > > If the printer has physical network connectivity, you should be able run > the "arp -a" from the command line on a computer on the same lan segment > and get the mac to ip addr mapping for the printer. > > e.g. > ~$ arp -a > ? (10.0.0.4) at e0:f8:47:09:45:3a [ether] on enp0s25 > ? (10.0.0.1) at 00:00:ca:11:22:33 [ether] on enp0s25 > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
