<p dir="ltr">What router do you have?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 20, 2016 6:13 PM, "David" <<a href="mailto:ainut@knology.net">ainut@knology.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I can remember 9 names (or more) much easier than i can remember
which ip addresses correspond to those names. <br>
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"takes a bit of setup" is what I'm trying to discover HOW to do.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
David<br>
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<div>On 06/20/2016 04:48 PM, Brian Oborn
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<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.
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<div>Brian Oborn aka bobbytables</div>
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<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>
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<div>pfSense.<br>
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You can use an old laptop and PCMCIA card even.<br>
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Turn the wireless router into an accesspoint with
openwrt/ddwrt/tomato.<br>
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<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"><a href="mailto:ainut@knology.net" target="_blank">ainut@knology.net</a></a>></span>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> 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.
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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"><a href="mailto:ainut@knology.net" target="_blank">ainut@knology.net</a></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>
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So, is there a way I can get this
router to do one of it's most basic
jobs?<br>
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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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