On May 23, 1:46 pm, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > At 11:00 AM -0700 5/23/2012, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > >This is good to know. Maybe I could get my Linksys router to show > >names instead of MAC addresses. > > It's quite useful, really. Most routers will propagate those names > as part of their dDNS. No more remembering IPs! You can just "ping > dans-quicksilver" etc. > > FWIW, here's the table from our Actiontec > router:https://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/Our%20DHCP%20Table.jpg
Where your router uses "Host Name" for the heading of the first column, my router uses "Device Name", but othewise basically the same as one would expect. If your router was doing what mine is, instead of "dans-quicksilver", you'd have "unknown_00:03:93:7d:fe:6e" or something pretty close to that. Perhaps the colons replaced with underscores. I need to go home and experiment, but the thing that's bothering me at the moment, is that my poor memory remembers three boxes in the OSX DHCP panel or was that in the Sharing Panel. Anyway, there's a box with machine name that I've assigned for file sharing. Then there's a box with the sharing name, but all the spaces have been automagically converted to '-'s. And then there's that (formerly) empty DHCP name box. I would guess that the box with automatically modified name is the one that's supplied to the DHCP server, and that implies that the spaces are not the problem. But perhaps apostrophes are. Okay, enough thinking. I should leave this alone until I can experiment a bit more. Jeff Walther -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
