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Caveat: I'm not a networking or cable modem expert ... the following
is just from my own experience.

On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 12:05:36 -0600, "Alan Sadler"
<asadler@21stcentury.net> wrote:

>The bad news is, that my printer stopped working.  It's an old HP3,
>connected to a HP Jetdirect EX plus print server.  The printer is too far
>for a printer cable, so I hooked it up through Ethernet.  It worked for the
>last 5 months without a hitch.  I didn't check it before the 21st century
>installer left.  He did say that my IP is now Dynamic(DHCP) instead of the
>static one on the old modem.  I understand the above, but not why the
>Printer stopped working.  Any help would be appreciated.

Sounds like your printer is no longer in the same network as your
computer.  When you had a static IP you could setup the printer server
to have a similar IP address as your computer... now the IP address is
set by the DHCP server and is probably not in the same network as the
printer.

Assuming you are running windows... run the WINIPCFG program to see
what IP address is assigned ... a wild guess is that the IP is in the
24.x.x.x region (this is a standard address block for the cable
industry).  Your printer is probably NOT in this area.

A solution would be to put a 2nd NIC into your computer and hook the
cable modem to that, so it will have it's own IP address assigned by
DHCP ... and assign private IP's to original NIC, and plug that into
the hub with your print server (and any other computers).  That also
gives you the ability to make your cable modem attached computer act
as a router (with appropriate software) so that all the computers in
your network can access the internet via your one connection.

david