Re: All printers and their IP Addresses

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 
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> 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.
> --