Ian Wood wrote:
You can only assign IP addresses to devices that
understand Internet
Protocol, i.e computers and network-aware devices such
as network
printers, network scanners and NAS boxes. All those
things that have
ethernet ports...
That has been my point all along!
For instance:
On
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
On my home network I have a fairly plain, vanilla USB
printer hooked into my Router via an EdiMax (cheap and
not very cheerful, and a pain in the bum to set up
with Macs) printer server. My printer probably
wouldn't understand an IP address if it hit it in the
face (a
Hence the idea that one could assign an IP address to
some sort of USB-to-Ethernet server regardless of what
was plugged in at the far end.
Expensive, but cool idea...
http://www.bb-elec.com/product.asp?SKU=ANYWHEREUSB/5
Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
