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

[Brian Oborn]

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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