Give a device fixed ip address

[pintosal]

I would like to give a network printer a fixed IP address, but can't see how to do it.

Advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

[gatekeeper]

Am very busy at present but sometime in the next day or two I hope to give you a more informative reply on this. However, I won't be able to give you any specifics but, if I understand correctly, it's mainly the printer side of things on which you need some guidance.

I myself run a networked printer. All devices on my home network have fixed IP addresses, but you don't necessarily have to use fixed addresses and instead you can use what's known as DHCP allocation of IP addresses. The choice about this can depend on the age and capability of the printer you're needing to use, and whether and how that printer can be configured with an IP address. In the first instance, look through any user manual you may have on the printer, for instructions on how to configure it for shared network usage. Unless you've already done it, you'll also need to do some network configuring of the computers/computing devices that will be part of that network. It's nothing of any great complexity. Finally, you'll need to configure the router as regards IP addressing, and that can be a bit trickier if it's fixed IP addresses you want to use.

Are you using wireless connectivity throughout? I myself don't use wireless, I use cabled ethernet connectivity for all the devices on the network.

[pintosal]

Thanks, but it's not the printer side but it's on the router that I need guidance.

My printer uses a network cable.

When I connected it up for the first time, it received an IP address of 192.168.1.110 from DHCP on the BiPac 8800. The set up of the printer drivers (Windows 7) on the laptop discovered the printer on 192.168.1.110

As I understand DHCP, this IP address is leased to the printer for a couple of days, but could be reallocated. In which case, any printing from the laptop would fail, unless I went through the process of rediscovery.

On previous routers that I've had it was easy to reserve an IP address, eg 192.168.1.110 so that it was permanently allocated to a device.

I can't see how to do that with the BiPac.

[billion_fan]

Thanks, but it's not the printer side but it's on the router that I need guidance.

My printer uses a network cable.

When I connected it up for the first time, it received an IP address of 192.168.1.110 from DHCP on the BiPac 8800. The set up of the printer drivers (Windows 7) on the laptop discovered the printer on 192.168.1.110

As I understand DHCP, this IP address is leased to the printer for a couple of days, but could be reallocated. In which case, any printing from the laptop would fail, unless I went through the process of rediscovery.

On previous routers that I've had it was easy to reserve an IP address, eg 192.168.1.110 so that it was permanently allocated to a device.

I can't see how to do that with the BiPac.

You can find the option under 'Configuration >> LAN' in the middle of the page you will see a 'Static IP Lease List' option, click on the 'Add' button below then enter a 'Host Label', MAC Address of the device, and enter a IP address outside the default DHCP range, then restart your device to renew the IP address

[pintosal]

Thanks, that worked a treat.

[gatekeeper]

Back again. But oops, looks like billion_fan's beaten me to it. Seems I misunderstood exactly the info you needed, anyway. Looks like you're sorted now.