how to redirect the printer port to old I.P.

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chiwing
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how to redirect the printer port to old I.P.

Post by chiwing »

my printer old IP is 10.10.181.5 and 10.10.181.205

however, after add a router behind I.S.P's router=10.10.181.
1, IP changes

and there are 55 computers.
I don't want to change the port setting in windows 7 one by one .
how to redirect the printer port to old I.P. (10.10.181.5 and 10.10.181.205)
without change it one by one?

ispyisail
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Re: how to redirect the printer port to old I.P.

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You need to use DHCP and host names

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set the host name on the printer

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Use gargoyle

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breakstuff
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Re: how to redirect the printer port to old I.P.

Post by breakstuff »

Sounds like what you should do is re-IP the ISP router to use a new subnet and then setup the Gargoyle with the IP scheme the ISP router had. Then, you wouldn't have to worry about IP addresses not matching the new scheme, etc.

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