[ML-General] ftp to other computers on my subnet via name instead of dhcp ip address

[Kirk D Mccann]

What router do you have?
On Jun 20, 2016 6:13 PM, "David" <ainut at knology.net> wrote:

> I can remember 9 names (or more) much easier than i can remember which ip
> addresses correspond to those names.
>
> "takes a bit of setup" is what I'm trying to discover HOW to do.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
>
> On 06/20/2016 04:48 PM, Brian Oborn wrote:
>
> I believe that you're way overthinking things with setting up a dedicated
> router for things like this. Your linksys will have a way to assign static
> dhcp entries so the same computers always get the same IP addresses. Once
> you've done that you can either memorize the IPs, or use the hosts file
> described previously to translate the names to IP addresses. Doing this
> takes a bit of setup once for each machine that you want to connect to, but
> is far simpler and easy to understand.
>
> Brian Oborn aka bobbytables
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:42 PM, WebDawg <webdawg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> pfSense.
>>
>> You can use an old laptop and PCMCIA card even.
>>
>> Turn the wireless router into an accesspoint with openwrt/ddwrt/tomato.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:37 PM, David <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Dawg, I called Linksys and they told me that this (expensive)
>>> wifi/router does not have that capability!!!  I'm not sure the "tech"
>>> person I talked to could even spell router, so take that with a grain of
>>> salt.
>>>
>>> I've been looking at OpenWRT and it sounds great, BUT their instructions
>>> for loading it into my router are baffling.  They seem to have a version
>>> for the Raspberry Pi, but none of the Pi's have gigabit ethernet and they
>>> all have only a single wired ethernet connector.  <sigh>  I can't really
>>> afford to dedicate a desktop machine to do the routing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/20/2016 04:32 PM, WebDawg wrote:
>>>
>>> Also you may need to use the host.domainname that your linksys device is
>>> passing.
>>>
>>> It depends how it is all configured I think.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:00 PM, David <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> To transfer files via ftp, for example, currently I have to go to the
>>>> target computer, log in, run ifconfig or ipconfig and get it's current dhcp
>>>> ip address, write it down so i don't forget, go back to the host computer,
>>>> then ftp to that ip address.  I cannot get the Linksys/Cisco WRT320N router
>>>> to use the computer name, versus the ip address, even though it keeps the
>>>> dhcp client list internally to itself.  This has gotten to be just too
>>>> aggravating.
>>>>
>>>> So, is there a way I can get this router to do one of it's most basic
>>>> jobs?
>>>>
>>>> Alternatively, is there a way to have each and every Winblows and Linux
>>>> computer on my little home-net keep it's own internal table of computer
>>>> name vs ip addresses so I don't have the hassle every time I want to move
>>>> files from one to another?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>>
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