On Tuesday 27 April 2010 10:11:18 pm Dallin Terry wrote: > Yes, the hostname is the same thing and it should be automatically > passed through your router. Counter-Strike ftw.
On Wednesday 28 April 2010 05:45:22 am Brian Phillips wrote: > I haven't seen a commercial firmware that doesn't allow you to set the > hostname of your router. Some ISPs require the indentification of a > hostname for access to their network (weird), so it's a setting that is > easily configurable through the web setup screens. It's usually a default > "linksys", "cisco", "dlink" etc. and found on the same pages as your > DHCP/Static IP Address configuration pages. So if there was a network service running on my router or my computer, I could just type in myhostname.rn.byu.edu to access it? And which one, the router's or the computer's? Ok, here's a new chapter in my story: Since I authenticated on Sunday with my computer directly plugged in (my router wasn't set up), I had assumed that I needed to access the network using the same MAC address that authenticated (my computers' MAC). So until now, I had set my router to use my computer's MAC to access the network. Today, I wondered if that was necessary, and set the router back to it's default MAC. I did have to reauthenticate, but after I entered my netID and password, I didn't have to go through any checks. Which brings me to another question: How did the network know that I'm not on Windows? The browser identification? Timothy Wood -------------------- 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
