[conspire] corrected to HP LaserJet4M Plus Re: HP LaserJet4 - CUPS lists printer twice

[Don Marti]

begin Rick Moen quotation of Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:32:21PM -0700:

> In general, if it's generally useful for a device to always keep the
> same IP -- which is definitely the case for a networked printer -- then,
> IMO, it's far easier and less hassle to just statically IP it and then
> just leave it alone.

Last I checked, dhcpd uses more memory to serve a
larger range of addresses, even if you have the same
number of actual clients.  It's a good idea to set a
"range" in /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf that's big enough
for the number of clients you expect, but you don't
need to give it the whole /24 or whatever you have
for your home network.  So that leaves you a block
of addresses to assign manually.

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