<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Unless something is expecting a device to have a different IP every 24 hours or such, it should work just fine. I had to do this with my ReplayTV DVRs, since they would lose their minds after the end of their DHCP lease</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 9:38 PM Neal Rhodes via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Working with a local non-profit.<br>
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They have a bunch of dumb devices on wifi, eg 3D printers.<br>
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Supposedly one accesses them via mDNS, eg "Ender3.local".<br>
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Which works less than 50% of the time on Windows or Linux boxes. More <br>
often it doesn't find it.<br>
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My instinct is to assign those MAC Addresses a permanent IP address in <br>
the DHCP on the main router.<br>
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I've gotten some pushback eg "It works on my MAC", or "If windows wasn't <br>
so screwed up this would be fine".<br>
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Which isn't too productive.<br>
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ARE THERE any reasons not to make this problem go away by assigning a <br>
fixed IP? Then mDNS would still work where it does now, and the rest of <br>
us can find the little buggers without playing hunt the wumpus.<br>
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regards,<br>
<br>
Neal<br>
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