remote printing question

[Derek Ragona]

At 06:25 PM 4/4/2007, David Banning wrote:
> > >I don't want to use a server. So the router would have to do NAT.
> > >Is it possible that way for the outside world to address the
> > >printer directly since it has a network address, and not a
> > >www IP?
> >
> > You can probably setup the router to forward the ports used by that
> > printer.  The ports you'd need to forward are dependent on the printer
> > driver.
>
>Thanks for that Derek. Any idea what good routers could do the job?

Netopia has them that will either bridge or route with a built-in adsl modem.

If you want more routing capability get a better netopia like a 9000 series 
which you can get with an ethernet interface to connect to any xDSL 
modem.  You can find cheap used ones on ebay.

         -Derek



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