Re: Linksys router DHCP dhclient hostname

[Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com>]

On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 10:27, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> No, the actual name is a single word with no spaces.
> 
> send hostname "Linux"
> 
> Lance
> 
> On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 09:34, Casper Gielen wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 04:53:17PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> > > I am using a Linksys router with DHCP.  I can obtain an IP and
> > > everything works fine but when I examine the Client's table in 
> > > the Linksys router the Linux computer has no name "Linux Box" to
> > > identify it.
> > > 
> > > I went into the dhclient.conf file and uncommented
> > > 
> > > send hostname "Linux Box"
> > > 
> > 
> > Just a wild guess, but try leaving out the space. Spaces are not allowed
> > in hostnames. 

Has the current lease expired?  Have you forced a renew for the lease? 
If you haven't I doubt any chages you make will be reflected by the
Linksys DHCP server until you get a new lease from it.

--mike