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

[WebDawg]

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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