[Web4lib] putting one printer on two Local Area Networks

[Cindy Murdock]

Hello John,

Perhaps you could use a DMZ, and put your printers inside it.  Then you 
could use firewall rules that redirect traffic from your inside network 
or your public network.  Potentially complicated but doable.  For 
example, we have a Soekris Net4501 running OpenBSD that allows access to 
servers in our DMZ from either our library network or the Internet at 
large.  The DMZ servers have IP addresses in the 192.168.20.x range, and 
the firewall (pf) redirects traffic to them from both the internal 
network and outside.

HTH,
_________________________
Cindy Murdock
Network Administrator
Meadville Public Library | Crawford County Federated Library System
meadvillelibrary.org | ccfls.org

John Fitzgibbon wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> In each of our libraries, we have two networks, one for the public and
> one for staff. The public network is connected to the Internet via a DSL
> line. Each network has a printer with a network card. We are now about
> to replace these printers. Is it possible to acquire a printer with two
> network cards and put it on both networks or is this a bad idea?
> Alternatively, is it possible to assign two IP addresses to the network
> card of the printer?
>  
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>  
> Regards
> John
> 
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