Duplicate printer IP address

[tsbservice]

Re: Duplicate printer IP address

One possible simple scenario. Bad guy may walk in open public areas where often MFP sits unattended and steal network cable from machine as well as its IP address. Now he is inside network with his device.
Of course there are numerous ways to prevent this from happening but just a thought.

[tonerhead]

Re: Duplicate printer IP address

You can do so many amazing things with a switch. I fell in love with Cisco switches and routers. However, learning that stuff can be grueling and after some time I realized that I was never gonna use 99% of the stuff that I was learning unless I was planning to go to work for a large corporation one day. That's not in my plans. I'm too old for a career change so I put the CCNA down. I still go back and brush up on it and play around. It really amazing.

I was working on my Security+ and stopped also. I came to the same conclusion, I am too old to change jobs anymore and since I switched employers, I am just a wrench anymore. Don't get to work on networks like I did at previous company.

[tonerhead]

Re: Duplicate printer IP address

One of the best managed networks I've ever seen was one where dhcp was not allowed anywhere in the building. Granted this was a relatively smaller business with perhaps 50-70 things on the network requiring ip addresses. There was a guest network set up for visitors, etc that was a seperate entity from the business network. This guy had a spreadsheet of all of the used ip's and what they went to. I remember bringing a new printer in. He was all prepared, here is the ip I want. I watched him type in the printer in his spreadsheet and delete the old printer from the spreadsheet. People with wireless laptops, he would go into the Windows settings and hardcode the ip address for them for that network. I remember asking about that.

Say what you will, but I never had printing issues, scanning issues, any sort of network glitches with that customer. He ran a tight ship. I realise that dhcp is a necessary tool in several networks, however, 90% or more of the networks we ever see are this size or smaller. I'm opening a bucket of snakes here, but too many of the IT people are just plain ass lazy when it comes to static ip setting. I'm not talking about the "designated" IT people who are a common employee who knows nothing more than some passwords. I'm talking "professional" IT. To this day, I've never seen a better running network and this guy's skill set is similar to mine "knowledgeable" not doing it for a living. He worked as accounts receivable and payable there. Interesting guy. I think a lot of "IT" professionals could learn a lot from him.