From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 12 21:27:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353EA16A420 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:27:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2EC743D48 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:27:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F8Ol3-0002bB-MM for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:27:50 +0100 Received: from modemcable002.152-81-70.mc.videotron.ca ([70.81.152.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:27:49 +0100 Received: from ugob by modemcable002.152-81-70.mc.videotron.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:27:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ugo Bellavance Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:27:33 -0500 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <200602121559.44033.gerard@seibercom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: modemcable002.152-81-70.mc.videotron.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: <200602121559.44033.gerard@seibercom.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: Device Name & Netgear Router X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:27:59 -0000 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. If you don't run samba on your freebsd box, it gets no answer, so no there is no serious problem about that. > > -- Ugo -> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail. I read the list. -> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the irrelevant parts in your replies.