I have an XP PC and an OS X laptop that I'd like to refer to each other by name. Currently the IP addresses are dynamic, provided by my WRT54G router. I want to keep using DHCP because it also provides the addresses of the Time Warner DNS servers to the clients, and I don't want to hardcode that.
A friend, unsure of the model of my router, suggested I look and see if I can get the DHCP server to fake it, by associating a specific MAC address with a specific IP address. Then I can just hardcode the link between IP addresses and hostnames in the hosts file on either box.
It's not pretty, and I don't love it, but it doesn't matter because that doesn't seem to be an option with my router. Am I missing something, as far as y'all know? Also, I do note that my router knows the names of the devices (I checked the DHCP client table)--why can't they know each other's?
I feel I'm missing something I could be doing to solve my problem with the pieces to hand, but if not, I'd be grateful if anyone could point me to, perhaps, a routher that plays nicer.
ita, do you have access to scripting environments on both the client machines (the PC and the Mac)? Your best bet might be to have them scrape the info from the router's DHCP client table web page and stuff it into their own hosts files, polling every ten minutes or so.
I've never found an accurate pedometer, unfortunately. I've had much better luck mapping my route using GMaps Pedometer (or just trusting the treadmill).
I have an iTunes question - is there a way to adjust how much of a podcast needs to be played for it to be considered "not new"? I have my iPod setup only to sync new podcasts, but I'd like them to remain new until I've listened to the whole thing! For podcasts longer than my average commute, it's very annoying to have them deleted from the iPod before I've finished listening. (I can manually mark them unplayed in iTunes to get them back, but then I also have to manually scroll through to find where I left off.)
Having continuously running scripts on two machines is a last resort solution for me, Karl. Depending on price and additional features, I'd even consider replacing the router to avoid it.
Then your best solution probably involves some sort of WINS resolution. Windows can be configured to do broadcast WINS queries when doing name lookup; I have no idea what the equivalent is for OS X.
I also don't know which (if any) trouters routinely do dynamic-DNS style updates from DHCP. But that's probably the feature you're looking for in a router. If you find one that does it, will you post back tot eh group? It might prove useful to me in the future.
But that's probably the feature you're looking for in a router.
It's a possibility. I had been thinking of one where I could assign MAC addresses IP addresses, but either way would work. I will keep looking and report back.
I had been thinking of one where I could assign MAC addresses IP addresses
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Beej, I love my Nike+. In the Nikes, the transmitter fits under the insole, but it seems like it would work atttached to, say, the tongue of another brand of shoe. I'm not sure how that could be done securely - I mean to try it, but I haven't yet.
It's not terribly accurate right out of the box, but it can be calibrated. I'm going to walk a marked mile tomorrow, coincidentally, so I'll be able to report on the accuracy.
What I like best about it is that it records your instantaneous speed throughout the "run" so you can see when you slowed down in a particular run (I can always see exactly when I hit the steep hill leading back to my house, for example), and compare the same route from different times, stuff like that.
Audiobooks take up more space on the iPod, IME, because they are pretty long, but memory/unit of time seems about the same.
Jessica, if you find a way to do that, I would be extremely grateful to find out, also. I've been reduced to just not syncing my iPod if I'm only partially through a podcast and that is so not tenable.
ita, DH says there is alternate firmware (dd-wrt (open source)) for your router that allows you to reserve DHCP lease reservations - reserve specific IP addresses for specific computers but still allows all the other DHCP options. That's how our router is set up.
Deprecated. I hate that word. I mean, when we're not talking about
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Ooh! I've been kinda wanting an excuse to update my firmware, -t.
