Re: LPQ500 line printer weirdness

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Jim Alexander wrote:
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If it is a BOOTP, that is weird as while the printers are the ones that
request it by broadcast, there usually has to be a BOOTP service running
somewhere else that is willing to assign the IP address.

It's been a while since I've done anything with bootp, but I seem to
recall that you can set per-client parameters in the bootp server based
on the MAC address of the device making the connection. One such
parameter could be the IP address.

And, in fact, searching for "bootp set ip address", many of the articles
returned stress exactly that -- for instance, at

http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_BOOTPClientServerMessagingandAddressing.htm

it says:

"The BOOTP server maintains a special set of information about the
clients it serves. One key part of this is a table that maps the
hardware (layer two, data link layer) addresses of each client to an
assigned IP address for that device. The client specifies its hardware
address in its request, and the server uses that address to look up the
client's IP address and return it to the client. (Other techniques can
also be used, but a mapping table is most common.)"


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