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Date:	Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:27:06 PDT
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Print Servers (SMC)

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On 10/14/01, Sheridan George wrote, in part:
>Steve Carter wrote:
>> Sheridan:
>>
>> I had not considered that I could have both fixed IP
>> and DHCP on the same subnet. It appears that this is
>> what you have done and it's working for you. Now that
>> I think about it, as long as the fixed IP addresses are
>> outside of the DHCP assignment range, but within the
>> subnet range, it should work, shouldn't it?
>
>Yes.
>I simply set the range of the dynamic addresses that the
>SMC can issue to 100-199. My BR's IP is 192.168.1.254,
>the ABR is 192.168.1.250, and the Digi, which is now
>getting a dynamic IP is currently at 192.168.1.180.
>
>It has been several days now (the BR doesn't have a
>setable IP lease and I don't know what the hardwired
>lease time is) and the served IP to the Digi has stayed
>the same. That has saved me a whole bunch of setup
>headaches on the NC20. (Which I thank you for.
>It was your post that alerted me to where they were
>at a price I was willing to pay.)

Whoopie! I'm thrilled someone else got to benefit.
I told a co-worker, but he ordered too late and it's
now backordered -- he may never get one.

>> While it's OK for my computers to be assigned a dynamic
>> IP address, the print servers might be a different story.
>
>A very different story. There is nothing to serve the IP to
>the SMC (at least in my set up). It's address must be static.
>
>> I've set up my LPR application in both OS/2 and Win98
>> to point to the fixed IP addresses I've chosen for my
>> two print servers. The SMC address must remain fixed,
>> I think, but the Digi 3400x print server might be OK
>> if I can refer to it by name instead of IP address.
>
>In my experiment my printer object for the NC20 points to the dynamic
>address (192.168.1.180 currently). As long as the SMC doesn't serve
>a different IP all is well.
>
>Eventually I'll switch the BR out for the ABR so I can specify
>a 'forever' lease and not have to worry unless there is a power
>outage.
>
>I hadn't thought of using the Digi's name. That might work
>but I don't know enough to even try it.
>
>
>> I'm specifically NOT using the DLC/LLC Windows printing
>> utility that came with my Xerox C20/Digi 3400x. NT
>> handles TCP/IP printing natively, as does OS/2, so
>> in Win98 I'm instead happily using an IBM Windows TCP/IP
>> printing application (LPR) that I found at IBM Japan.
>
>That is the best way.
>Sheridan

Glad to see that my method makes sense to someone else too.
My main motivation was to maintain OS/2 compatibility on the
network. I'll take another look at the Digi and see if I can
address it by name. An experiment that could pave the way for
DHCP on my internal LAN.

--Steve

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