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Router-Switch-Printer problem.
I have a network that looks like this:
Cable --- WRT-54GS --- Cisco E2000 --- Brother Ethernet Printer/scanner
The E2000 is connected on a local port, IP is static on 192.168.10.XXX, and DHCP is off. Everything seems to work normally except for my printer - and this one is odd.
The PC attached to the E2000 will print and scan just fine. The WiFi PC's coming in on the WRT mostly see that printer as offline and cannot scan. I say mostly, because if they keep trying, it tends to eventually work, yet the connection between the two routers gets shutdown in the process and the Ethernet cable needs to be physically unplugged from the E200 Switch port and plugged back in for it all to work - and then, of course, the printer becomes offline to those users again.
Can anybody guess what might be going on? This sounds like a bug - more than a troubleshooting issue.
Oh - One more point, the Brother troubleshooter states "3.That your printer and your computer are both connected to the same router or hub. " but they don't explain why. I'm not aware that I'm doing any special filtering or blocking, and I am doing forwarding but on ports only related to a femtocell.
Thanks for any ideas you have.