On 11/24/2010 04:10 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 11/24/2010 09:24 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> I have attached a lexmark network printer e120n by the zeroconf protocol
> (avahi).
>
> My problem: For some reasons, I need the printer's IP address.
>
> The uri is "dnssd://Lexmark%20E120n._pdl-datastream._tcp.local"
Thanks to all who replied to the above question. But the avahi-tools did
not solve my problem. I found another solution: Because the MAC address
of the printer is known (and does not change), the *arping* program gave
me the solution: arping -I eth0 <the printer's MACaddress>
There was only one problem: The Fedora version of arping did not allow
MAC addresses as destination, but I found a version in
freshmeat.net
working for me (arping-2.09) :
sudo /usr/local/sbin/arping -i eth0 00:04:00:f9:b0:f9
ARPING 00:04:00:f9:b0:f9
60 bytes from 192.168.100.107 (00:04:00:f9:b0:f9): icmp_seq=0 time=1.506
msec
60 bytes from 192.168.100.107 (00:04:00:f9:b0:f9): icmp_seq=1
time=794.000 usec
60 bytes from 192.168.100.107 (00:04:00:f9:b0:f9): icmp_seq=2
time=865.000 usec
60 bytes from 192.168.100.107 (00:04:00:f9:b0:f9): icmp_seq=3
time=802.000 usec
...
...
Kind regards
--
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de>
http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes