Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,11.Aug.08, 10:37:58, Shachar Or wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2008 10:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun,10.Aug.08, 20:33:29, tyler wrote: > > > > If your router knows DNS then it might be enough to enable the > > > > 'send host-name' directive in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf (with the > > > >

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-11 Thread Shachar Or
On Monday 11 August 2008 10:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,10.Aug.08, 20:33:29, tyler wrote: > > > If your router knows DNS then it might be enough to enable the > > > 'send host-name' directive in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf (with the > > > correct value of course). > > > > Well, that got the rou

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,10.Aug.08, 20:33:29, tyler wrote: > > If your router knows DNS then it might be enough to enable the > > 'send host-name' directive in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf (with the correct > > value of course). > > > > Well, that got the router to recognize the hostname, but not the > domainname.

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-10 Thread tyler
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu,07.Aug.08, 11:13:56, tyler wrote: > > [...] > >> My router is a Siemens Speedstream 6520 and I'm running Lenny on both >> machines. Access to the internet is fine for both machines. When my wife >> connects to the same router via wireless from he

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,07.Aug.08, 11:13:56, tyler wrote: [...] > My router is a Siemens Speedstream 6520 and I'm running Lenny on both > machines. Access to the internet is fine for both machines. When my wife > connects to the same router via wireless from her laptop (running XP) it > shows up on the router pag

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-07 Thread tyler
tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When apache is configured to listen to all addresses, I can browse > webpages on the desktop from the laptop by entering the IP address > (192.168.2.11), but not the name (etch.mynetwork). On the desktop I can > ssh to the desktop (ie., ssh to itself) with ssh e

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-07 Thread tyler
"Stackpole, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -Original Message- >> >> When apache is configured to listen to all addresses, I can browse >> webpages on the desktop from the laptop by entering the IP address >> (192.168.2.11), but not the name (etch.mynetwork). On the desktop I > can

RE: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-07 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> -Original Message- > Subject: home network problem - router is smarter than me > > Hi, > > What follows is a very naive question regarding home networking. Any > tips, even a pointer the most appropriate documentation, would be very > helpful. > > I'd like to setup my desktop as a back