[Voyage-linux] Setting a network name.

[Gustin Johnson]

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Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
> Hello Guys,
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> I’m looking for some advice on how to set a network ‘name’ for my voyage
> system. At the moment I have /etc/network/interfaces looking like so,
> the standard setup:
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> auto eth0
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> iface eth0 inet dhcp
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> Now, when looking at all devices which are connected to my router, all
> of my windows based devices all have ‘names’ listed in the connected LAN
> devices list which makes them very easy to identify, such as ‘Rob’s PC’
> or ‘Email Server 1’, however, the Linux devices display no name, this
> becomes a problem when we have several devices connected on a DHCP and
> I’m trying to identity which is which so I can grab the IP that’s been
> assigned and SSH in.
> 
> Is it possible to set a name for the device so it will display as ‘My
> Voyage Box’ or something to that effect? I’d guess it’s going to involve
> changing the above but I have no idea what too.
> 
Windows machines do a NetBIOS broadcast.  You can achieve this with
Samba.  A better solution is to implement DNS on your network.

You can set the hostname via the hostname command or changing the value
in /etc/hostname.  This only really effects the command prompt, which is
handy so you know what computer you are ssh'd in to.

If you replace pump (which I do on all of my Voyage systems) with
dhcp3-client you can specify a hostname passed to the DHCP server (hint:
/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf).  Some DHCP servers will do something useful
with info, some do not.  So YMMV.

It really boils down to organization.  We have a full forward and
reverse DNS setup for our LAN (and our clients).  Documentation is also
critical, but it follows from a solid plan for your network.
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