Timothy Wood wrote: > I never knew that. But how does one pass a hostname to the DHCP servers? I > don't think my router would know how. > > Or, is the hostname...wait, a "hostname" is the name I set when I installed > Linux (and although I don't know how to change it, a Windows PC's hostname is > that name you can change in the System Properties), right? Am I talking > about > the same thing? Is that automatically passed? (Does my router also have > one?).
My router runs openwrt and uses udhcpc. According to the manpage, if I use the "-H" option I can pass dhcp a hostname. I don't know how to get openwrt to do it automatically, though. It might do it by default using the router's hostname. Not sure. On Fedora, all I had to do was tell it to use dhcp and then specified a hostname. This was in the installer if I recall. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
