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

[Ruben Safir]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:45:54AM -0700, Don Marti wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Don Marti                                 +1 510-332-1587 mobile
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Eh

top - 13:10:43 up 29 days, 14:28, 12 users,  load average: 0.30, 0.51,
0.59
Tasks: 106 total,   1 running, 105 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.0% us,  0.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 95.7% id,  1.0% wa,  0.0% hi,
0.0% si

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
23830 ruben     15   0  435m 351m  31m S  2.7 34.8 238:02.35 firefox-bin        
24666 root      15   0  221m  43m  87m S  0.7  4.3 723:42.49 X                  
24324 ruben     17   0 26532 8028  22m S  0.3  0.8   0:58.29 gaim               
22978 ruben     17   0  1968 1092 1752 R  0.3  0.1   0:00.04 top                
    1 root      16   0   596   80  452 S  0.0  0.0   0:03.01 init               
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:02.66 ksoftirqd/0        
    3 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:04.14 events/0           
    4 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper            
    5 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.24 netlink/0          
    6 root       9 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid             
   27 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:27.02 kblockd/0          
   40 root       6 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0              
   39 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:35.47 kswapd0            
  623 root      25   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod            
 1547 root       6 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0              
 1549 root      23   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0          
 1550 root      24   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_1          
 1559 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:13.63 reiserfs/0         
 2164 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.14 khubd             

DCHP doesn't even show in the top ten of this ancient peice of hardware 
... leaving IP assignment to the client side leaves open all kinds of
troubles in my expereince.  For home purposes, were spinning on the 
head of a pin.

Ruben
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