industrial printer network drops

[martin6 10]

got this agfa industrial printer, standalone, but has a windows 7 PC connected to the print head direct via ethernet

 

when started the RIP program appears to make the network connection drop, starts off by constantly identifying network then red cross in the corner and the print eventually aborts

 

cant ping anything

 

until you kill the program, and network comes back on, all hunky dory

 

windows is up to date, tried another network card still same thing

 

it's just this program, anything i can do to stop what its doing, permissions perhaps, run as different user not admin ....

[Happ 25]

You could try disabling the routing through the default gateway. It’s an option under the TCP/IPv4 settings of the network connection.

[swarfendor437 14]

Is IPv6 enabled? If so, disable it and see if things improve.