[ale] weird printer problem

[Jim Kinney]

So Laptop is wireless and using VPN to offsite location
Desktop and printer are wired
All 3 are using the same wired/wireless router.

Desktop prints and laptop loses VPN connection.

I would suspect a router issue over printer. Maybe the print connection is
flaky or the protocol is broken.
Is the printer setup using Avahi (apple calls the auto-discovery something
else)? The discovery protocol may be trying to probe the laptop to see if
it's a printer and the only way the laptop can respond is to drop the VPN.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>wrote:

> On 3/30/2011 12:45 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> > Interesting - are you sure the printer, desktop and laptop all have
> > separate IPs on the router?   (That is have your reverified the IP on
> > each before trying the print?)   Is the VPN being established by the
> > laptop or by the router itself?
> >
>  my desktop is 192.168.10.100
>
> printer 192.168.10.102
>
> laptop 192.168.10.101
>
>
> I just checked. I was able to use the web & go to:
> http://192.168.10.102:80  and get the Samsung admin page..
>
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