Re: Discover IP address of flea-market print spooler

From: Cameron Kerr (cameron.kerr_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: 26 May 2004 17:25:03 +1200

Ian Northeast <ian@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Axis print servers also work like that. If you manually create an ARP
> entry on another machine in the same network with the print server's MAC
> address and any valid IP address, then ping it, the print server will take
> the ping sent to its MAC address as an instruction to set its IP address
> to the one in the packet.

So this is a modified form of RARP then, except it can happen
post-bootstrap. 

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