Hi! I’m studying and it says that it’s better to have a static IP address for a printer when a power outage occurs since the printer can come back up faster with static ip then a dynamic.
Why is static better?
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Let’s say your network is a hotel. IP Addresses are various rooms at the hotel. The DHCP server is the front desk and is responsible for handing out keys to the rooms.
The reason you want printers on a static IP Address is because if there’s an outage, the printer might get a new address/room number assigned to it. Older printers/drivers usually don’t communicate the room change. Even newer ones are unreliable in updating the address. As a result, print orders will go to the wrong address/room number and will not be printed.
There’s two ways to set a static IP Address: on the device itself or through DHCP reservations.
If you set it on the device itself, it’ll always use that address but you risk an IP Conflict if the DHCP hands out the same address. It’d be like the printer walking past the front desk and squatting in the room. The front desk might give out the key to the same room not knowing the printer is there. (This can be avoided by using a static address outside the DHCP Scope.
DHCP Reservations is basically the server reserving that IP Address specifically for the printer and will not give it out to other devices. Using the hotel example again, the front desk has instructions to keep a specific room available for a specific VIP and to only let that VIP use that room.
I went on a bit of a tangent but I hope this helps.
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