On July 24, 2007 at 07:00, sWORDs said...
So what you want is to be able to see a hostname in the
active dhcp clients table, this is what you would get
using static dhcp and assigning hostnames. Further more,
you always get the same ip for those devices, which should
make things a lot easier. All devices not mentioned will
still get an ip by DHCP.
sWORDs, thanks for the detailed (and quite neat) post/answer. I did not realize that devices not mentioned still get an IP by DHCP. However, what I meant by "defeating the purpose" is that a device should have a name of its own that automatically shows up from the device when appearing into a network. Your solution is elegant but the name is actually assigned by the network admin person for a given device after having identified the device. If, for example, one individual had two or three (or more) TSU9600, it would be nice to have a host name appear automatically as (potentially) assigned at the factory (but user controlled of course) for each of the TSU9600. Note I am not trying to discredit your suggestion but I would prefer if the name came from the device (rather than the other way around). Hopefully, this makes sense to you...
