Re: All printers and their IP Addresses

They can but it would make it very difficult to manage. Think about connecting an IP printer to an out queue, or using it as a remote printer from a PC. Ugly beyond pale.

I think Eric is correct in his approach, assuming a smaller environment. I have one partition at a customer that has well over 1000 printers/queues on it. Maintaining that with any accuracy on a spreadsheet might be a challenge, so I understand the original post's question.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


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
-- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive Garrett, IN 46738 Ship to: Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com From: "Eric Lehti" <elehti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Date: 06/11/2013 11:19 AM Subject: RE: All printers and their IP Addresses Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx And I bet that the users' need for printers' I.P. addresses could be retrieved from a simple table manually maintained by the printer administrator. Take an hour or two for the data entry? Printers are typically quite static and persistent and change rarely. How many printers do they have? I bet that the printer list today is very similar to last year's list, and practically identical to next year's printers also.
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