Re: Linksys router DHCP dhclient hostname
All works now.
In addition to
send host-name "Linux"
I also added (uncommented)
lease {
option host-name "Linux";
}
Lance
On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 23:40, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
Reply to: