DD-WRT and hostnames for MAC addresses?

[jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

Ah, I guess that explains it. I have dhcp disabled on the router,
because I already have an internal DHCP server.

The wireless clients get ip addresses just fine from DHCP, without
running it on the router.



On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro-blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> John Abreau wrote:
>> I'm running ddwrt...
>> Each row has the MAC address populated...but the columns for
>> host name and ip address are unpopulated...
>
> Generally that should happen via DHCP. Assuming you started with some
> default settings, it sounds rather odd that the wireless clients weren't
> at least getting an IP address assigned via DHCP.
>
> Specifically, with DD-WRT, you go to the Services tab (if I recall
> correctly) and add custom config lines in the appropriate box for
> Dnsmasq to map MAC addresses to particular IPs and host names.
>
>  -Tom
>
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