Gerard Seibert on 2006-02-12 15:59:33 -0500: > On the router's configuration screen, under maintenance is a > "Attached Devices" menu item. This will list all four machines > connected to the router with their respective MAC > addresses. However, only the WinXP machines have their 'Device Name' > listed. > > I was wondering why this is. I cannot seem to locate any specific > information on the Netgear site regarding this. Everything works > fine, so I assume it is not a serious problem.
DHCP clients may send names along with requests; Windows computers send whatever name you've configured in the sharing or whatever section, and this is what you see. If you want your router to show a name for the FreeBSD host, put a line that reads 'send host-name "foo";' in /etc/dhclient.conf on that host.
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