[cups.general] snmp address ranges

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Aug 13 00:46:11 PDT 2008


Stephen Isard wrote:
>> Your printers are not configured properly (wrong netmask?) or have
>> a buggy IP stack that can't deal with "classless" networks
>> (networks that have netmasks other than 255.0.0.0, 255.255.0.0, or 
>> 255.255.255.0).
> 
> Ok.  I'd be very grateful if you could suggest a way for me to
> demonstrate that to the people who administer the printers without
> involving CUPS.  (I am afraid that if I show them the results from
> the CUPS snmp backend that I mentioned in my first message, they will
> just claim ignorance of CUPS and try to blame it for any problems I
> encounter).  The printers are both HP series 4050 laserjets, if
> that's any help.

Print the configuration page on the printer and look at the netmask
value.  I'd guess it is not set to the correct value...

-- 
______________________________________________________________________
Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





More information about the cups mailing list