2 Nic Cards and 2 ip addresses on Hp4350, Is this doable?

[olanmila]

We are trying to put 2 nic cards and 2 ip addresses for an HP4350. One is connected to our network and the other DSL. Is this doable?
It is going to be pretty interesting tomorrow.

Please advise.

[Big Al]

You would have to switch back and forth between the embedded NIC and the card by cold resetting the printer. They make a box called a Print Server that does this job for you. Don't cost much. Sorry, I have never used one. If there is a computer nearby could you share this printer and go into it from a USB cable if it has a USB port.

Let us know how you work it out! Good luck!

Al

[cs_steve]

Sure you can do that. There are 2 EIO slots on this machine as well as the built-in NIC (if you have the 4350n), so if you inserted JetDirect cards into those 2 EIO slots, technically you could have up to 3 IP addresses / network connections per printer.

It won't hurt anything; basically because there are 3 unique IP addresses the computer & network will treat it as 3 different printers.