Thick Ethernet/Sun networking problems - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Nov 2001

On Nov 3,  8:23, Iggy Drougge wrote:

...
  Well, it certainly does the trick for Intel print
servers.
 To set the IP address on a Netport Express, you first give it an IP through
...
  the "arp" utility, then ping it, which will
make the Netport inherit the IP
...
  with which it was pinged. Quite ingenious. 
That uses a cheat that's built in to Intel print servers. As Iggy says, the
print server listens to all the packets that go past, and infers its IP
address from the address contained in the first ICMP packet it sees which
contains its own MAC address.  It's not the normal way of doing it at all,
and it's not reverse-ARP, which Lawrence said the printer used.

It's worth a try, though, since it would only take a few moments to test.
 And the Calcomp web page does say "make an entry in the ARP table".

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York