On 02/21/2013 06:55 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
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
<http://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
My apologies to the rest of the group as Jack and I go back and forth.
Please know that I have much respect for Jack and his experience, but it
is so much fun to pick on his senior moments (and mine).
You see, Jack, these printers began their service with static IP
addresses outside of the DHCP range, just as you suggest. But through
the course of operations and other humbug, these printers "decide" to
abandon their static IP assignments and go looking for a dynamic
address. I kid you not - an HP P1606dn printer did just that this morning.
If said customer had a proper, _linux_, dhcpd with address pools and
reserved addresses, dhcpd would receive the address request and give the
miscreant device the IP address that it had all along.
Howard
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