print server

[michael]

I was wondering if it's possible setting up a print server with an IP
address outside the LAN range set on the router. Is the router range just
for DHCP purposes or does all traffic have to be from IP addresses within
this range?
I remember reading something in an earlier post that said statically setting
an IP address outside the LAN range would provide a more stable print server
environment....... is that true? Or is the stability provided by the fact of
just having a static IP address?

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

 

[John Wunderlich]

I was wondering if it's possible setting up a print server with
an IP address outside the LAN range set on the router. Is the
router range just for DHCP purposes or does all traffic have to be
from IP addresses within this range?
I remember reading something in an earlier post that said
statically setting an IP address outside the LAN range would
provide a more stable print server environment....... is that
true? Or is the stability provided by the fact of just having a
static IP address?

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Of course it's possible to set a print server IP address outside your
LAN range so long as your print server is not on your LAN. I'm
guessing that what you probably want to do is set a fixed IP address on
your print server that is located on your LAN. In that case, you just
have to make sure that the IP address you assign is inside the LAN
subnet (usually the first three numbers must be the same) and it is not
in the range of addresses used by the DHCP server/function on your
router. Check the DHCP configuration of your router to discover that
range and avoid them.

HTH,
John

 

[Lem]

I was wondering if it's possible setting up a print server with an IP
address outside the LAN range set on the router. Is the router range just
for DHCP purposes or does all traffic have to be from IP addresses within
this range?
I remember reading something in an earlier post that said statically setting
an IP address outside the LAN range would provide a more stable print server
environment....... is that true? Or is the stability provided by the fact of
just having a static IP address?

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Just to add a bit to John's advice: yes, the stability is provided by
having a static IP address and the reason that you want to set it
outside of the range used by the router's DHCP server is to avoid the
possibility of the router assigning that same IP address to some other
device: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/133490

 

[michael]

you are exactly right. I ended up setting a fixed IP address for the print
server on my LAN and everything worked great. I am curious though as to why
any of the LAN computers can not find a printer server IP if outside the
routers dhcp range. My LAN is 192.168.0.xxx and I originally had the print
server IP fixed at 192.168.1.2. None of the LAN computers could find the
home page of the print server. Is that just how a router works...... it will
only forward traffic on a non-internet routable address to computers or
devices within the range that its excersizing dhcp?

 

[Bernd]

-------- Original-Nachricht --------

you are exactly right. I ended up setting a fixed IP address for the print
server on my LAN and everything worked great. I am curious though as to why
any of the LAN computers can not find a printer server IP if outside the
routers dhcp range. My LAN is 192.168.0.xxx and I originally had the print
server IP fixed at 192.168.1.2. None of the LAN computers could find the
home page of the print server. Is that just how a router works...... it will
only forward traffic on a non-internet routable address to computers or
devices within the range that its excersizing dhcp?
:

You have to differentiate between subnet range and dhcp range.

Your subnet range is 192.168.0.xxx, so your server ip 192.168.1.2 was
out of range and therefore "invisible".
The DHCP range can be identical or (in your case) a subset of the subnet
range, e.g. 192.168.0.2 until 192.168.0.10. So a static ip of
192.168.0.11 is WITHIN the subnet range AND without the DHCP range and
can therefore used as static without problems.
But you must remember it ! That's the only disadvantage.

Bernd

 

[michael]

thank you very much to everyone that replied. I totally get it now.