I use DHCP for everything. printers, servers, access points, the works. But, I do it with reservations. We have shifting dns and wins servers, networks are often getting re-addressed, or we ship things around the WAN. DHCP reservations make it much more predictable and manageable. Greg On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Nick Smith <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To be honest, you should assign static IPs to your printers/servers. > Anything else is a recipe for trouble of one sort or another. > > > > *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On > Behalf Of *Steve Snyder > *Sent:* 23 October 2009 12:25 > *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* [THIN] OT: do hp jetdirects do dhcp conflict detection? > > > > windows clients upon receiving an dhcpoffer send out an arp to verify that > the address is not in use and sends back a dhcpdecline if it is in use. Do > hp jetdirects do this as well? Also wondering about whatever network > component dell printers use too. Yes, we've had a couple of conflicts so > wondering if I should enable the address conflict detection on the dhcp > server or leave it alone. > > ------------------------------ > SUBJECT TO CONTRACT >