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

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):

> Yeah - but then you have to make sure your DHCP server doesn't step on
> that address and vice-versa.

Which basically amounts to "possessing the ability to count".
(It's not exactly brain surgery to give, say, high IPs 200-254 to
DHCPd and then allocate static IPs from "2" upwards.)

> The hard thing is to sometimes find the mac address of hardware.

Er, do that the easy way, Ruben:  Collect them from your ARP cache.

[rick at linuxmafia]
~ $ /usr/sbin/arp 
Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask            Iface
airport                  ether   00:03:93:e1:8c:59   C                     eth1
198.144.195.185          ether   00:03:6c:7b:24:70   C                     eth1
[rick at linuxmafia]
~ $