Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
Kam Leo wrote:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:10:53 -0600, Christopher J. Bottaro
Thanks for the great reply. I have a couple of problems though...
It seems my router does what I want (I think). It it setup as a DHCP
server. I have 3 computers:
semaphore (linux)
mutex (winxp)
mobile (linux, wireless)
When I go to "connected devices" in my router setup, I see 3 entries:
--- 192.168.1.100
SEMAPHORE 192.168.1.101
--- 192.168.1.102
Problem number 1: Why isn't mutex and mobile giving their hostnames
to the router?
Problem number 2: "ping semaphore" from mutex (the winxp machine)
works,
but "ping semaphore" from mobile gives me "unknown host". What is up
with
that? Why can the win32 machine resolve semaphore properly and the
linux machine doesn't?
Its a Netgear WGR614v5 router, btw.
Thanks for the help, I can't wait to get this problem licked...I've
been wanting to solve it for a long time.
Verify following are in /etc/sysconfig/network in each of your linux
boxes:
# /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=hostname_of_your_system
I forgot to mention that you should also verify in /etc/hosts that you
have the hostname as an alias for address 127.0.0.1 .
It's getting really late and I'm not thinking as clearly as I should.
Need to get to bed.
You also need to check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.
Change eth0 to eth1 or whatever your network connection to dhcp is.
#/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
DHCP_HOSTNAME=hostname_of_your_system
DHCP_HOSTNAME should be there. If not add it. This should do the trick.
I believe that DHCP_NAME is set up by kudzu when you do your install
of Fedora; however, the setup is easy to miss.
Get your router to refresh its status and see if the names appear.
-- Kam Leo
[root@mobile ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=mobile
[root@mobile ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 mobile localhost.localdomain localhost
[root@mobile ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlcjb
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=mobile
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=CJB
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto
I even reserved an local IP address for it in my router setup, *giving* it
the device name as "mobile". Still, when I ifup that device, it's name
comes up blank in my router's "connected devices" tab (it *is* there, it
just doesn't have a name associated with it).
Any ideas on my second problem? My other machine's name, semaphore, does
show up in my router's "connected devices" tab. I can "ping semaphore"
from my windows box, but from my other linux box:
[root@mobile ~]# ping semaphore
ping: unknown host semaphore
Thanks again for the help, I really appreciate it.
Try adding "NICKNAME=mobile" to your ifcfg-wlcjb file. The
"DHCP_HOSTNAME" only affects DHCP, not the wireless stuff. See the
man page for "iwconfig" for the various options you can set.
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