On 2/5/2013 12:03 PM, Magnus Larsson wrote: > Hi! > > This might be somewhat stupid, but.... > > I have Backuppc on my home LAN, and used to identify all hosts via > ip-numbers, that were fixed from the router, so each host always get the > same ip-number by the router dhcp-server. Then the hosts were linked to > the ip-numbers via the /etc/hosts file on the server. > > Now, however, I have installed a wifi-repeater that messes things up. > This repeater exchanges the MAC adress on the connected computers for a > virtual MAC address, same for all devices attached to it. So the router > no longer can give fixed ip numbers on the basis of the host MAC > address. This means that my setup with fixed ip numbers, matched to host > names through the /etc/hosts-file, no longer works (for the hosts > connected to the wifi repeater). > > I have no name server or other such function on my home LAN. All the > machines are Linux, and I use rsync. > > Any advice on what to do? I need a simple and stable solution..:) I have > read the backuppc documentation but find no real help there. Doing a > nmblookup does not work: > > $ nmblookup zotec > querying zotec on 192.168.1.255 > name_query failed to find name zotec > > There is nothing on 192.168.1.255 - or rahter, I do not know how to set > things up so this works. Any help at all is warmly appreciated.....
The simplest solution (depending on how many hosts there are) is to give each host a fixed IP address rather than relying on the router to do it for you. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
