Hence, it is always good to know your printer’s IP address before the actual situation arises. Thanks all who helped.An IP address of your printer is required when connecting the printer with a network and troubleshooting common problems.
I'm sure the other suggestions could have helped too but this is the one I chose. If anyone is following along and having this problem, this was my solution. Watched for packets that matched the MAC address in question, was able to find this way that the IP was .x.Ĭhanged the computer's ethernet adapter settings to a static IP of .x+1 ( one address higher than the print server's IP) and my subnet mask to 255.0.0.0.Įntered device's IP in browser and connected successfully. Computer connected via LAN to print server device, all other networks turned off. I'm pretty certain that the device's IP is set outside the range of our LAN. However, when the device is plugged into the switch, I am able to SSH into the switch and run show mac-addr-table and see the device's MAC address and the port on the switch that it's plugged in to.
So far, arp -a does not reveal the device's MAC address, either when it is connected to our network switch or directly into a computer. Unfortunately there is no way to factory reset the D-Link without logging directly into it using its IP address, which I do not know, and was modified by my predecessor who did not create documentation. I know the D-Link's MAC address, but I am unable to find out what its IP address is in order to connect to the D-Link print server for the purpose of configuring it for network use. Background: We have an ancient large format printer/surface engraver that has a D-Link PoE print server attached to a parallel port, because none of our machines are old enough to have parallel ports.
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