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jeff_barish at earthlink

Aug 25, 2008, 7:48 AM

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Wifi name

My router reports that my N800 is connected by Wifi, but the name that it
reports is "unknown". Is there a way to assign a name by which the N800
will be known to the router?
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james.knott at rogers

Aug 25, 2008, 8:00 AM

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Re: Wifi name [In reply to]

Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> My router reports that my N800 is connected by Wifi, but the name that it
> reports is "unknown". Is there a way to assign a name by which the N800
> will be known to the router?
>
It should be picking up the name from the router. You did set it there,
didn't you? Also, while on the subject, to get best security, you want
to run WPA2 and most certainly not WEP. While WPA is good, WPA2 is
better. WEP is easily broken. Configure the router for WPA2 or
WPA2+TKIP (may be called "Auto" or something similar), which will enable
WPA2, while still supporting those that can only run WPA. Anything
running a recent version of Linux can do WPA2, as can XP with SP3. Then
go to one of the WPA key generator sites, such as www.grc.com (click on
Services > Perfect Passwords and grab a key from the "63 random
printable ASCII characters" box. You get a new key every time you
reload the page.) and paste it into the appropriate box in your router
and also use it to connect to the router.

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jholmblad at acadiasecurenets

Aug 25, 2008, 8:23 AM

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Re: Wifi name [In reply to]

Jeffrey,

who is the manufacturer of your router? I
s it running the DHCP service for your network?

It is possible that your DHCP service is not recognizing/processing the
host name option parameter^1 in the DHCP request from the N800. I know
for a fact that the Linksys RV series of routers, which do support an
optional DHCP server, do process the parameter properly. The client host
name appears as

Nokia-N800-23-14

1. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1533.html

Best Regards,

John Holmblad

Acadia Secure Networks, LLC

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Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> My router reports that my N800 is connected by Wifi, but the name that it
> reports is "unknown". Is there a way to assign a name by which the N800
> will be known to the router?
>

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jeff_barish at earthlink

Aug 25, 2008, 8:45 AM

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Re: Wifi name [In reply to]

John Holmblad wrote:

> who is the manufacturer of your router? Is
> it running the DHCP service for your network?

Actiontec. It is also my DSL modem. Qwest claims that it has custom
modifications to enable it to work on their network. Yes, it is running
DHCP. There are 6 devices connected to the router, 4 by wire, 2 by Wifi.
All have a name associated except the Nokia.

James Knott wrote:

> It should be picking up the name from the router. You did set it there,
> didn't you?

I don't understand. The router is getting the name of each device that
connects to it from itself? I didn't set the 5 names that it is accurately
reporting.

I am using WPA. As far as I can tell, the Actiontec router does not support
WPA2.
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james.knott at rogers

Aug 25, 2008, 9:03 AM

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Re: Wifi name [In reply to]

Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> John Holmblad wrote:
>
>
>> who is the manufacturer of your router? Is
>> it running the DHCP service for your network?
>>
>
> Actiontec. It is also my DSL modem. Qwest claims that it has custom
> modifications to enable it to work on their network. Yes, it is running
> DHCP. There are 6 devices connected to the router, 4 by wire, 2 by Wifi.
> All have a name associated except the Nokia.
>
>
> James Knott wrote:
>
>
>> It should be picking up the name from the router. You did set it there,
>> didn't you?
>>
>
> I don't understand. The router is getting the name of each device that
> connects to it from itself? I didn't set the 5 names that it is accurately
> reporting.
>
> I am using WPA. As far as I can tell, the Actiontec router does not support
> WPA2.
>
Sorry, I had misread. I thought your N00 wasn't seeing the router name.

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kalle.valo at nokia

Aug 25, 2008, 10:15 PM

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Re: Wifi name [In reply to]

"ext John Holmblad" <jholmblad[at]acadiasecurenets.com> writes:

> It is possible that your DHCP service is not recognizing/processing the
> host name option parameter^1 in the DHCP request from the N800. I know
> for a fact that the Linksys RV series of routers, which do support an
> optional DHCP server, do process the parameter properly. The client host
> name appears as
>
> Nokia-N800-23-14

Jeff and John, what software versions are you using? diablo or still
chinook? icd got major overhaul (to put it mildly) in diablo, that
might have an effect here.

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Patrik.Flykt at nokia

Aug 25, 2008, 11:07 PM

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Re: Wifi name [In reply to]

Hi,

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 08:15 +0300, ext Kalle Valo wrote:
> > The client host
> > name appears as
> >
> > Nokia-N800-23-14

This is stored in /etc/hostname.

> icd got major overhaul (to put it mildly) in diablo, that
> might have an effect here.

Starting with Diablo, ICd2 now sets the DHCP hostname option if the
device has a non-NULL hostname. If the above file is changed, the
hostname is picked up in the next reboot. Or as root set it from the
command line (as in 'hostname foobar').

And yes, major overhaul is a mild understatement :-).

Regards,

Patrik

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kalle.valo at nokia

Aug 25, 2008, 11:11 PM

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Re: Wifi name [In reply to]

Patrik Flykt <Patrik.Flykt[at]nokia.com> writes:

>> icd got major overhaul (to put it mildly) in diablo, that
>> might have an effect here.
>
> Starting with Diablo, ICd2 now sets the DHCP hostname option if the
> device has a non-NULL hostname. If the above file is changed, the
> hostname is picked up in the next reboot. Or as root set it from the
> command line (as in 'hostname foobar').
>
> And yes, major overhaul is a mild understatement :-).

But hey, I got your attention that way ;-)

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jeff_barish at earthlink

Aug 26, 2008, 9:24 AM

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Re: Wifi name [In reply to]

Patrik Flykt wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 08:15 +0300, ext Kalle Valo wrote:
>> > The client host
>> > name appears as
>> >
>> > Nokia-N800-23-14
>
> This is stored in /etc/hostname.
>
>> icd got major overhaul (to put it mildly) in diablo, that
>> might have an effect here.
>
> Starting with Diablo, ICd2 now sets the DHCP hostname option if the
> device has a non-NULL hostname. If the above file is changed, the
> hostname is picked up in the next reboot. Or as root set it from the
> command line (as in 'hostname foobar').
>
> And yes, major overhaul is a mild understatement :-).
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrik

I am still running Chinook. Sounds as if I need to upgrade.
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Patrik.Flykt at nokia

Aug 27, 2008, 12:39 AM

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Re: Wifi name [In reply to]

Hi,

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:24 -0600, ext Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> I am still running Chinook. Sounds as if I need to upgrade.

Do notice that the dummy network functionality is not yet identical to
Chinook[1].

Cheers,

Patrik

[1] https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3306

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