RE: All printers and their IP Addresses

[Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>]

DHCP does not need to mean dynamic. DHCP can assign a static based in MAC address. So the printer would always get the same IP every time it boots.  

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:49 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: All printers and their IP Addresses

I've done many printers using DHCP -- never had a problem in 20+ years.

It's obviously important that if you use this scenario, you use DDNS to update the host name to point to the proper IP address, and that you don't ever hard-code the IP address into anything (which, you shouldn't ever do, anyway...  that would be piss-poor administration if you hard coded an IP address into anything aside from a DNS server.)

The DEVD or RMTOUTQ needs to point to the host name, of course, in DNS rather than the IP address.


On 6/11/2013 10:48 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I may be off base here, but do printers ever use DHCP?  If so, wouldn't
> their IP address be rather, well, dynamic?
>
> Why is it important to know their IP address?  I could imagine the network
> admin wanting to segregate printers on to their own subnet, or only allow
> the printer subnet to do certain things.  Like I think some barcode
> printers used ftp to download labels and someone may want to only allow
> ftp from some particular addresses.
>
>
> Rob Berendt