Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:34:06 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Device Name & Netgear Router Message-ID: <200602121634.06907.gerard@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <dso983$pv$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <200602121559.44033.gerard@seibercom.net> <dso983$pv$1@sea.gmane.org>
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--nextPart7654142.Y1IiSx4Y67 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Gerard Seibert wrote: > > I have a Netgear Cable/DSL Router - RP614v3 that connects two WinXP > > machines with two FreeBSD 5.4 machines to each other. The router is > > connected to a Cable Modem, but I do not think that is relevant to > > this question. > > > > On the router's configuration screen, under maintenance is a > > "Attached Devices" menu item. This will list all four machines > > connected to the router with their respective MAC addresses. > > However, only the WinXP machines have their 'Device Name' listed. > > > > I was wondering why this is. I cannot seem to locate any specific > > information on the Netgear site regarding this. Everything works > > fine, so I assume it is not a serious problem. > > Probably just because the router makes a request for the netbios name > of computers. =A0If you don't run samba on your freebsd box, it gets no > answer, so no there is no serious problem about that. I have that latest version of Samba installed on both FreeBSD boxes. The=20 network works fine. Samba seems to be working correctly. It probably=20 has something to do with the way the router quarries for the BIOS name,=20 but that is just a guess. =2D-=20 Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net PGP: http://www.seibercom.net/sig/gerard.asc --nextPart7654142.Y1IiSx4Y67 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD76nOchM2dIO+3uMRAqPkAJ4kCgGOjeGxLw0bDV3vBeado/y0QQCfWUc+ vqPIPb73c48EcixgaiBrgkw= =K5eC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7654142.Y1IiSx4Y67--
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