John has regained access, fwiw.  As far as I know, the problem is now resolved.

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Michael Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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&gt;" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 12/09/2017 12:00 PM, [email protected] 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
>>
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