From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Just this Tuesday, Les Albert explained that ...   
   > On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 09:06:20 -0700, Snidely    
   > wrote:   
   >> Roger House used thar keyboard to writen:   
   >   
   >>> I "don't get" your "I'm a nerd.  A button can be anywhere." statement.   
   >   
   >> Because I spend so much time with computers, I'm as used to finding   
   >> buttons on the screen as on the keyboard or on the side of the   
   >> computer.   
   >   
   >   
   > Another question for a computer nerd: I have a Canon iP6600D printer   
   > that refuses to reveal its IP address (the Acer Chromebook will not   
   > print on the Canon unless it has the address).  On my Windows computer   
   > I have tried all the CMD line netstat commands, the Windows Power   
   > Shell commands, and all the Windows suggestions I could find online   
   > with no success.  Do you have a nerdy method that might work?   
   >   
   > Les   
      
   Try "arp /a" from cmd or powershell window.  If you know the printer's   
   physical address (the MAC) you can figure out the right one to use more   
   quickly.  If the last component of the 4-tuple is 0, 1, or 255 ...   
   that's probably not the right one, but exceptions occur.   
      
   /dps   
      
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