DHCP client name question

[Ian McCall]

Hello.

I have a Powerbook with an Airport Extreme card communicating with a Linksys
802.11g wireless router. All works fine as far as connectivity goes.

However, I notice that in the DHCP Clients table from the router's
administratoin web page, the Powerbook's DHCP client id doesn't show up.
I've tried stripping out the spaces and apostrophe that must have gone in
the default name (from "Ian's Powerbook" to "ians_powerbook"), but that
hasn't had any effect.

Also, I notice that I'm unable to ping any machine on the network by client
name - IP address works fine, but if I try pinging 'shuttle' (a
Shuttle-based desktop PC) from the Powerbook I don't get a reply. Similarly
I can't ping the printer by name from either the Powerbook or the desktop
PC, though by IP is fine. If I try pinging the PC by name from the PC
itself, I get a response and the correct IP (192.168.1.100, not 127.0.0.1).
Pinging the Powerbook by name from the Powerbook gives unknown host.

Any clues? Thanks in advance for any information.


Cheers,
Ian

[Christian]

Ian McCall wrote:

> However, I notice that in the DHCP Clients table from the router's
> administratoin web page, the Powerbook's DHCP client id doesn't show
> up.

Is the router supposed to log the client id at all? Check in the Linksys
manuals.

> Also, I notice that I'm unable to ping any machine on the network by
> client name - IP address works fine, but if I try pinging 'shuttle' (a
> Shuttle-based desktop PC) from the Powerbook I don't get a reply.

Do you have a DNS server set up, or at least a hosts file in each computer,
which translates from the name to the IP address?

Best wishes, Christian.

--
Christian F Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Hilfe für Strassenkinder in Ghana: <http://www.chance-for-children.org>

[Ian McCall]

"Christian" <yaw@mail-fach.de> wrote in message
news:bm5t2r$j133e$1@ID-59166.news.uni-berlin.de...

> Ian McCall wrote:
> Is the router supposed to log the client id at all? Check in the Linksys
> manuals.

Yes - it logs the client ID of both PCs that connect, and also the printer
(a Lexmark Optra SC, no special config). Nothing is pingable by name
however.

> Do you have a DNS server set up, or at least a hosts file in each

computer,

> which translates from the name to the IP address?

I thought that's what the router's DHCP server did?


Thanks,
Ian

[Christian]

Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> wrote:

> > Do you have a DNS server set up, or at least a hosts file in each
> > computer, which translates from the name to the IP address?

>
> I thought that's what the router's DHCP server did?

No. The DHCP server just distributes numeric IP addresses dynamically to
the clients asking for one. It is not a DNS server.

Christian.

--
Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Hilfe für Strassenkinder in Ghana: <http://www.chance-for-children.org>

[Dasha Samojlova]

interesting for me,thanks