Philip Henderson wrote:
[various SNIPs]
> My network connects to the outside world through a Netgear DG834GT
> wireless router that provides DHCP and NAT. The network runs the
> standard private 192.168.0.x IP range.
> From the Netgear settings screen, under Attached Devices, all pcs
> connected either cabled or wireless are listed showing IP address and
> MAC address but only my debian server is identified correctly in the
> Device Name column, the rest are shown as ‘unknown’.
> I have looked at all the files I can think of on the debian server to
> see if I am missing anything on the ubuntu server - /etc/hostname,
> /etc/hosts, /etc/resolve.conf, and as a result added a few things. Am I
> missing something? Strange thing is I am not sure why the debian server
> is always listed fully.
Are they both running the same services?
> Also, quite often when I go to the Attached Devices list my xp laptop is
> listed by IP, Device Name and MAC, although when I refresh the page the
> Device Name disappears and is listed as unknown. Why should this be?
Just getting into this myself, but is there a chance that there is a
firewall on the laptop that stops the router requesting information?
When the XP laptop acquires an address using DHCP, it probably sends the
name information.
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Luke Stutters
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