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Date:	Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:10:33 PDT
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Print Servers (SMC)

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Steve Carter wrote:
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> Sheridan:
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> 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.)
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> 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.
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> Is that how you're doing it?

see above.

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> 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

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