Ping ?

[pc-rebuilders]

I set up a Ricoh laser printer today and installed it in the correct manor with a known good open port for the printer. When I tried to ping it to see why it was not printing, I input the address xxx.xxx.xxx.020 and that change to xxx.xxx.xxx.016 - not sure why that is happening. Any suggestions?

 

[JustInspired]

Is .016 the machine you are pinging FROM?

 

[pc-rebuilders]

Is .016 the machine you are pinging FROM?

I don't believe so...

 

[mr m]

Justinspired is right, I'd bet .016 is the pc you are pinging from and your OS is Vista or Win 7.

In XP, when a ping failed you'd get a "request timed out" error. On Vista/7 you get a "reply from .016, destination host unreachable."

I'd check the firewall to see if it's blocking the printers IP.

 

[Mr.Mike]

Any results yet?

filler..........................

 

[Boston Pro Comp Serv LLC]

You mean you try to staic IP the printer at .20 and the printer changes to .16?

 

[pc-rebuilders]

Ip

Yep, that's what was happening. This was a fresh XP install too. Never ran into that before....

 

[mr m]

If you are sure that you are setting up a static IP address on the printer correctly then whatever device hands out DHCP addresses is changing it.

Make sure your printers static IP is not in the routers pool of DHCP addresses.

 

[pc-rebuilders]

Info

Today I was at job again, ping 192.xxx.001.020 and same result - but tried 192.xxx.1.20 and shazam! This worked, not sure why, but it did not like the zero's.