pring printer

[BIS]

Hello
Strange situation here. I have an HP printer connected to a Sun machine. The printer has an ip address, 10.2.0.100
I can successfully ping this printer from the sun box.
I take out the printer, and connect another one, an Infotec printer with internal NIC. Add this printers name and identical ip address in the /etc/hosts file.
I cannot ping this printer from the sun box - I can however successfully ping it from my desktop pc (W2K).

Any ideas why this would happen?

 

[ugwings]

BIS,

Your solaris box remembers the hardward address of the first printer. You must reboot your solaris box or remove the arp entry.

Example: arp -a | grep 10.2.0.100
You will see the hardware address of the first printer

arp -d 10.2.0.100 - will delete then entry

ping 10.2.0.100 - your new printer should respond

 

[BIS]

Many thanks for this info.