I might be dangerous if I could get my TLA's and FLA's in order :) Yes, SNMP is what I had in mind.
If the printer is capable, could it use google print, or HP's version, or Apple's version of the same technology? Another thing might be able to have the printer set up as the routers's DMZ address (opens up to all kinds of remote hacking), and use something like a dyndns.com service type name. Many Linksys and other brands of consumer routers can use dyndns to do dns resolution on dynamic IP's. In my house, I have a few things I want to have fixed IP's, and I just give it a fixed IP outside the DHCP range. Then I can put it in a hosts files or similar. Some routers do allow setting a fixed IP for a particular mac address while serving DHCP to other clients. All that depends on having access to the routers or knowegable onsite tech. But it sounds like you might not have that as an option. ><> ... Jack Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part. - Martin Terma On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Drew from Zhrodague < [email protected]> wrote: On 2/21/13 2:50 PM, Howard White wrote: Okay, stop me if you've heard this one before... I keep having to chase printers that for what ever good reason get their IP addresses changed. I do not control the networks upon which these printers reside; I am not able to setup dhcpd with pools of IPs for like devices or reserve IPs based on MAC. I know how to FIX the problem but... So if I type arping -c 5 192.168.n.n, I get the MAC as well as the response back from the device. The challenge has been that I can get IP and MAC from nmap but not printer name which I get from lpstat -v. If I have a crib sheet with the printer names and MAC, I can reconnect. Still bugging the customer to get reserved DHCP installed. This is due to the DHCP server assigning a completely new lease, and not allowing a lease renewal - it's common, and Windows hates this when you use the LPD ports, which are assigned statically (when DNS does not exist). Perhaps you can assign the printer a static IP address internally? I use BIND, and the default behavior is to renew the lease, but I have control over my DHCP configs. Some smaller offices will use a single Linksys router, which also does not do renewals (but DD-wrt does). -- Drew from Zhrodague lolcat divinator [email protected] -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
