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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes
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