On Mar 29, 7:50, Arno Kletzander wrote:
> Just typing in snoop at the prompt ends up with
> snoop: Command not found.
> In which subdirectory might this program be (if it's on the system at
all),
> or how can we search for it? If it isn't, where can one possibly get it?
/usr/sbin/snoop on my Solaris systems -- but it might be elsewhere on an
older system, and it's not installed by default.
Alternative is tcpdump, which uses a library called libpcap. The home page
for both is
http://ee.lbl.gov/ or
http://www.tcpdump.org/ , and they can be
downloaded from
ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/ You'll need a decent C compiler --
which probably means gcc, as Sun stopped providing a compiler with the OS a
long time ago.
> The printer manual has surfaced, but it only contains the information
that
> the Ethernet card was an add-on and had its own Installation and
Configuration
> Guide with it - which must be buried even deeper than the manual itself
if
> we were given it at all
On most of the Ethernet-enabled printers I've come across (mostly HPs,
Lexmarks, and Xeroxes) you can do the setup from the front panel --
sometimes tedious, but usually not too hard to understand.
> I guess the remaining problem is really the IP address of the printer, as
> the data transfer between the computers and the printer must be all right
by
> now: Whenever a ping or something else occurs on the network, the orange
DATA
> LED on the printer's back side blinks a few times (what should indicate
it is
> receiving the data).
A reasonable assumption. Have you tried printing out status pages?
Sometimes that will show you things like IP address, protocols enabled,
that sort of thing. Usually you can do it by holding down one of the
buttons when you turn the power on.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Thu Mar 29 2001 - 19:31:36 BST