<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>Brian Oborn aka bobbytables</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:42 PM, WebDawg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:webdawg@gmail.com" target="_blank">webdawg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>pfSense.<br><br></div>You can use an old laptop and PCMCIA card even.<br><br></div>Turn the wireless router into an accesspoint with openwrt/ddwrt/tomato.<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:37 PM, David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ainut@knology.net" target="_blank">ainut@knology.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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.<br>
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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.<div><div><br>
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<div>On 06/20/2016 04:32 PM, WebDawg wrote:<br>
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<div>Also you may need to use the host.domainname that your
linksys device is passing.<br>
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It depends how it is all configured I think.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:00 PM, David
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ainut@knology.net" target="_blank">ainut@knology.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
<br>
So, is there a way I can get this router to do one of it's
most basic jobs?<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
David<br>
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