Thanks Eric, I will.  Sorry for the other reply coming after yours.  I had
started the reply and in the middle went to cleanup and have breakfast
before heading out (as I must do now).

On 9/5/06, Eric Shubes <plug@shubes.net> wrote:
>
> Dazed_75 wrote:
> > I do not doubt what you say, but it does not seem to answer the actual
> > question.  If I use a web browser from any system to look at the Linksys
> > Router's web page and navigate to the page where I can click on a button
> > to display the routers DHCP Client table, it shows the system names for
> > the TiVo Box (which I understand is a linux based bystem) and the names
> > for Windows boxes, but does not show the names for my Linux systems.
>
> Oh. The question that comes to mind is, where to these names come from?
> Since they're in the DHCP Client (lease) table, they're apparently coming
> from the DHCP session. The host names can be assigned by the server, or
> requested by the client. Look into dhclient (or whichever dhcpclient your
> linux box uses) for a way to specify the client's host name.
>
>
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