From: Magnus L. <ma...@vi...> - 2013-02-05 17:03:23
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Hi! This might be somewhat stupid, but.... I have Backuppc on my home LAN, and used to identify all hosts via ip-numbers, that were fixed from the router, so each host always get the same ip-number by the router dhcp-server. Then the hosts were linked to the ip-numbers via the /etc/hosts file on the server. Now, however, I have installed a wifi-repeater that messes things up. This repeater exchanges the MAC adress on the connected computers for a virtual MAC address, same for all devices attached to it. So the router no longer can give fixed ip numbers on the basis of the host MAC address. This means that my setup with fixed ip numbers, matched to host names through the /etc/hosts-file, no longer works (for the hosts connected to the wifi repeater). I have no name server or other such function on my home LAN. All the machines are Linux, and I use rsync. Any advice on what to do? I need a simple and stable solution..:) I have read the backuppc documentation but find no real help there. Doing a nmblookup does not work: $ nmblookup zotec querying zotec on 192.168.1.255 name_query failed to find name zotec There is nothing on 192.168.1.255 - or rahter, I do not know how to set things up so this works. Any help at all is warmly appreciated..... Best, Magnus |