Re: MAC Instead of Computer Name in Router Device List?

2012-05-24 Thread t...@io.com
On May 23, 11:32 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 8:25 AM -0700 5/23/2012, t...@io.com wrote: In the list of devices connected to my router and assigned IP addresses, everything shows up as I would expect, except a G4 MDD (10.4.11) and an 800 MHz G4 ILamp (10.2.8). For those two

Re: MAC Instead of Computer Name in Router Device List?

2012-05-24 Thread t...@io.com
On May 23, 1:46 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com 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

Re: MAC Instead of Computer Name in Router Device List?

2012-05-24 Thread Dan
At 8:35 AM -0700 5/24/2012, t...@io.com wrote: On May 23, 11:32 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 8:25 AM -0700 5/23/2012, t...@io.com wrote: In the list of devices connected to my router and assigned IP addresses, everything shows up as I would expect, except a G4 MDD (10.4.11) and

Re: MAC Instead of Computer Name in Router Device List?

2012-05-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 24, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Dan wrote: Special characters don't propagate well. They were ok with AppleTalk, but not for dDNS. Stick with basic alphanumerics and dashes or underscores. dashes only. The Internet standards (Request for Comments) for protocols mandate that component

Re: MAC Instead of Computer Name in Router Device List?

2012-05-24 Thread Clark Martin
On May 24, 2012, at 8:35 AM, t...@io.com wrote: On May 23, 11:32 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 8:25 AM -0700 5/23/2012, t...@io.com wrote: In the list of devices connected to my router and assigned IP addresses, everything shows up as I would expect, except a G4 MDD (10.4.11)