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OK, here's a tough one for you all!
I have an airport basestation next to my router which is plugged into it via the WAN port. A cable runs out of the LAN port to a 16 port hub to which a number of computers are connected physically as well as an HP d135 all-in-one printer with a JetDirect print server.
The printer is set up using CUPS with its own dedicated IP address but I want to change the basestation to distribute IP addresses to the whole network by DHCP and NAT. My question is how do I keep one of the addresses constant so that I can configure CUPS on all the machines with one address.
With DHCP the maximum lease time is 15 days, so how do I get a number like 10.0.1.2 dedicated solely to the printer? Is this possible? Any other suggestions are greatly ap[preciated!
Cheers,
Rohan
The printer is set up using CUPS with its own dedicated IP address but I want to change the basestation to distribute IP addresses to the whole network by DHCP and NAT. My question is how do I keep one of the addresses constant so that I can configure CUPS on all the machines with one address.
With DHCP the maximum lease time is 15 days, so how do I get a number like 10.0.1.2 dedicated solely to the printer? Is this possible? Any other suggestions are greatly ap[preciated!
Cheers,
Rohan
having not used the airport base station, I can only tell you generally how to do it.
Set the dhcp server to serve a range of addresses, that is 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.200 as an example. Know set your printer to an IP outside of that range, example 192.168.1.201. As long as any static IPs you assign are on the same subnet, you will be able to access them.
Tom N.
Set the dhcp server to serve a range of addresses, that is 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.200 as an example. Know set your printer to an IP outside of that range, example 192.168.1.201. As long as any static IPs you assign are on the same subnet, you will be able to access them.
Tom N.
DHCP allows you to 'reserve' an IP address which basically gives the device a permanent lease. This has the advantage of allowing you to configure the device as if it had a static IP address. I'm not familiar with your particular DHCP server but you should be able to create a reservation entry to a specific address and give it the MAC address of the device you wish to reserve the address for.
Also keep in mind that even though the lease time is only 15 days, the device will try to renew that address as the lease nears expiration. So as long as you don't leave the device off for more than a week or so it will effectively have a static IP address.
Good luck.
Also keep in mind that even though the lease time is only 15 days, the device will try to renew that address as the lease nears expiration. So as long as you don't leave the device off for more than a week or so it will effectively have a static IP address.
Good luck.