Re: All printers and their IP Addresses -- MIDRANGE-L

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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

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