Re: valid ip address for printer -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: valid ip address for printer
From: "Wilson, Jonathan" <piercing_male@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:58:08 +0100
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On Sat, 2014-07-19 at 11:02 -0400, Jim Franz wrote:

We have a network printer (ipds) assigned address 192.168.127.255 (by our
network staff)

.255 is the broadcast address when a netmask is .255

Ref:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/error-do-you-want-to-ping-broadcast-371882/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3782807/linux-ping-broadcast-switch

To be honest I've never seen this till your post and I tried it on my
home network, but then again I use dchp in the asdl modem and after
first assignment of an IP set it to "always use same address"

Jim

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