[Discuss] printer issue

[epp at null.net]

Comcast will allow a customer to use a personally-owned modem, if this
is what you're referring to. They have a list online of the approved
modems, that I presume were tested to ensure they work.

I have an Asus router that is configured as an access point, which I
have used in the past. As an AP, the devices on the internal network
would pull IP's from the Comcast gateway, but are physically/WiFi
connected to the AP. A negative to this, is that (unlike the Comcast
gateway) the router/AP will not allow the same SSID to be used for both
2.4 and 5.0 GHz WiFI.


On 6/24/22 19:04, John Abreau wrote:
> I generally recommend minimizing the amount of trust you give to your
> ISP. I've switched between different ISPs over the years, and if the
> ISP insists on providing its own wifi router, I would connect only one
> device to that router: my own personal wifi router.
>
> My internal home network is always under my personal administrative
> control, and I only use the ISP to transport bits back and forth
> between my private network and the public Internet.
>
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 4:50 PM <epp at null.net> wrote:
>
>     My printer is an OfficeJet Pro 8210 and it will prompt to download and
>     install a software upgrade, if available, when it's connected to the
>     network. It has upgraded the software once, since I've had it. I
>     do not
>     know how often it checks HP for updates.
>
>
>
>     On 6/24/22 15:54, Ben Kallus wrote:
>     > It's worth noting the security risks that come with network
>     printers.
>     > Their firmwares is not often updated, and has been shown to be
>     > insecure time and time again.^1 You may be better off connecting
>     it to
>     > a computer you trust, then exposing it as a network printer through
>     > that computer. The photosmart D110 is the printer I had as a
>     kid, and
>     > I don't think it's gotten an update in a very long time.
>     >
>     > [1]:
>     https://techventures.columbia.edu/news-and-events/latest-news/symbiote-technology-created-ang-cui-and-salvatore-stolfo-named-one
>     >
>     >> On Jun 24, 2022, at 1:58 PM, epp at null.net wrote:
>     >>
>     >> On 6/24/22 11:21, dan moylan wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> running fc36 on lenevo thinkpad T460 (alphacent), printer hp
>     >>>
>     >>> photosmart d110.
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> because of other problems, xfinity just came and provided a
>     >>>
>     >>> new modem/router/wifi.  i logged into xfinity's device and
>     >>>
>     >>> set up reserved ip addresses for my stuff in accordance with
>     >>>
>     >>> /etc/hosts:
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
>     >>>
>     >>> 127.0.0.1       alphacent.localdomain  alphacent
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> 10.0.0.1         xfinity.localdomain xfinity
>     >>>
>     >>> 10.0.0.63        aldeberon.localdomain aldeberon
>     >>>
>     >>> 10.0.0.62        d110.localdomain d110
>     >>>
>     >>> 10.0.0.61        unknown
>     >>>
>     >>> 10.0.0.60        alphacent.localdomain alphacent
>     >>>
>     >>> 50.87.218.82     bluedan
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> all is well, except for the printer.  i went through the
>     >>>
>     >>> wireless setup on the printer which declared success, but
>     >>>
>     >>> the xfinitiy modem shows it as an offline device --
>     >>>
>     >>> un-pingable.
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>    moylan nmp[1111] nmap -Pn 10.0.0.62 > 3log
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>    Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-06-24 11:14 EDT
>     >>>
>     >>>    Nmap scan report for d110.localdomain (10.0.0.62)
>     >>>
>     >>>    Host is up (0.10s latency).
>     >>>
>     >>>    All 1000 scanned ports on d110.localdomain (10.0.0.62) are
>     >>>
>     >>>    in ignored states.  Not shown: 990 filtered tcp ports
>     >>>
>     >>>    (no-response), 10 filtered tcp ports (host-unreach)
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>    Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 7.04 seconds
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> what's going on?
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> ole dan
>     >>
>     >> I swapped out my gateway with Comcast last month because of the
>     speed
>     >> increases back in March. My HP printer was connected to the
>     previous and
>     >> is connected to the new, via Ethernet. The printer apparently
>     retained
>     >> its IP address in its settings, so once it was connected to the new
>     >> gateway, it just worked.
>     >>
>     >> If the above is the IP address of the printer and HPLIP is already
>     >> installed, as superuser/root, running:
>     >>
>     >> hp-setup -a 10.0.0.62
>     >>
>     >> in a terminal window, should otherwise configure it.
>
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