Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-03 Thread Lisi
Sorry, John. This shoul dhave gone to the lsit and not off-list. On Monday 02 May 2011 16:50:41 John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: > > +1. Much easier to remember! It took me several years to be able to > > remember my computers' names without having to look them up. > > I wrote: > > Why didn't y

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 2 May 2011 14:29:21 +0100 Lisi wrote: > On Monday 02 May 2011 09:05:51 Jochen Schulz wrote: > > I know someone who absolutely despises of the > > idea that the hosts in his local network have hostnames. He likes IP > > addresses better. :) > > +1. Much easier to remember! It took me s

Re: Re (2): Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Bob McConnell
Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Monday 02 May 2011 16:24:36 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Paul E Condon Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 12:55:37 -0600 It is crazy to write such misleading error messages. I did, in fact, have JavaScript disabled ... Ouch! A friend returned a new router to the vendor aft

Re: Re (2): Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Monday 02 May 2011 16:24:36 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Paul E Condon > Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 12:55:37 -0600 > > > It is crazy to write such misleading error messages. I did, in fact, > > have JavaScript disabled ... > > Ouch! A friend returned a new router to the vendor after > encoun

Re (2): Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread peasthope
From: Paul E Condon Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 12:55:37 -0600 > It is crazy to write such misleading error messages. I did, in fact, > have JavaScript disabled ... Ouch! A friend returned a new router to the vendor after encountering such a bad proprietary interface. An elegant solution is to

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110502_111609, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 02 May 2011 02:35:54 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > The web interface on the router no longer works with iceweasel. It did > > work fine a few hours ago but now I can only get a one line message > > (folded here for email): "Please upgrade to a vers

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > +1. Much easier to remember! It took me several years to be able to > remember my computers' names without having to look them up. I wrote: > Why didn't you just give them numerical names? Mihira Fernando writes: > Like the IP address ? :D Sure. OneNinetyTwoDotOneSixtyEightDotO

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 05/02/2011 08:21 PM, John Hasler wrote: Lisi writes: +1. Much easier to remember! It took me several years to be able to remember my computers' names without having to look them up. Why didn't you just give them numerical names? Like the IP address ? :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > +1. Much easier to remember! It took me several years to be able to > remember my computers' names without having to look them up. Why didn't you just give them numerical names? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Lisi
On Monday 02 May 2011 14:51:18 Camaleón wrote: > He likes IP > > >> addresses better. :) > > > > +1.  Much easier to remember!  It took me several years to be able to > > remember my computers' names without having to look them up. > > Let's see if you still think the same when IPv6 comes into play

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 May 2011 14:29:21 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 02 May 2011 09:05:51 Jochen Schulz wrote: >> I know someone who absolutely despises of the >> idea that the hosts in his local network have hostnames. He likes IP >> addresses better. :) > > +1. Much easier to remember! It took me sev

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Zoran Kolic
> This is very helpful. But while you were responding, Netgear presented > a new problem. The web interface on the router no longer works with > iceweasel. It did work fine a few hours ago but now I can only get a > one line message (folded here for email): "Please upgrade to a version > 4 or highe

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Lisi
On Monday 02 May 2011 09:05:51 Jochen Schulz wrote: > I know someone who absolutely despises of the > idea that the hosts in his local network have hostnames. He likes IP > addresses better. :) +1. Much easier to remember! It took me several years to be able to remember my computers' names wit

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 May 2011 02:35:54 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > The web interface on the router no longer works with iceweasel. It did > work fine a few hours ago but now I can only get a one line message > (folded here for email): "Please upgrade to a version 4 or higher > browser so that you can use

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Joe
On 02/05/11 09:35, Paul E Condon wrote: Anyway, I can't have a router that can have its administrative interface shutdown without warning in the middle of the night. I'll have to solve that before I can respond to your suggestions. Is this just a matter of JavaScript? I don't think any box of

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110502_095924, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 02 mai 11, 00:29:24, Paul E Condon wrote: > > A few days ago, my old consumer grade router died, or seemed to die > > such that I decided to purchase a new consumer grade router. What I > > remembered about how the old router was set up was insuffi

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul E Condon: > > […] I can see good reasons for DHCP, but I have never > understood how I could get my four Debian hosts to talk to each other > under DHCP. I see some things that can be configured to have DHCP > assign fixed IPs to certain devices based on their MAC address, but is > that what n

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 02 mai 11, 00:29:24, Paul E Condon wrote: > A few days ago, my old consumer grade router died, or seemed to die > such that I decided to purchase a new consumer grade router. What I > remembered about how the old router was set up was insufficient to get > me back up and running with the new

Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-01 Thread Paul E Condon
A few days ago, my old consumer grade router died, or seemed to die such that I decided to purchase a new consumer grade router. What I remembered about how the old router was set up was insufficient to get me back up and running with the new router and the old LAN configuration. I think my problem