@ Abe and Firecrest - Riinuka - 08-25-2012
I'm moving 3 offices in a circle (A to B, B to C, C to A) next Weds.
15 desktops, 1 laptop, 1 networked printer (not a Ricoh or anything). The place I work for uses DHCP for printers.
I checked out the comm closet down the hall with the Cisco switches, and livened the drop in the room the team lead wanted the printer to be near, made sure it worked by testing it.
How do I tell if that new port is gonna let that printer be on the same VLAN/subnet so I don't have to make a new damn entry for it (which may delay moving that thing by a LOT), since I'll be doing this while all 3 offices are working and need uptime? Have not dealt with this shit much before, and this is my first asset move with my new job (don't want to fuck it up).
Re: @ Abe and Firecrest - abecx - 08-25-2012
If you have the IP for the printer, just plug it up in its new place and see if it pings. If it does its on a reachable vlan.
If you dont want to move it, put a laptop on that port first with a known IP address and try to ping it from another location.
Re: @ Abe and Firecrest - Firecrest - 08-26-2012
Abe's right. If you can ping a laptop on it, it will work for the printer.
If it doesn't work, I know this guy named Mark...
Re: @ Abe and Firecrest - Sanderz - 08-26-2012
Mark is dead.
Re: @ Abe and Firecrest - Firecrest - 08-26-2012
I figured prison.
Re: @ Abe and Firecrest - Riinuka - 08-26-2012
Yeah I used my laptop to check to make sure the new drop was active after making it live on the switch, but didn't ping it. Thing is, I can get ping results for any asset in our network because they bridge everything so I'm not sure that would be enough (it could retain the same IP assignment even when moved to a different campus).. I'll be able to mess more with it Monday and Tuesday if I go out there before the actual day of the move. Just gotta make sure I don't interrupt someone. Can't move the printer beforehand, but -maybe- I can just grab a 50 foot cable and switch drops for a minute, hah hah.
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