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DHCP client "Host name" advanced field

Mauro Fantina
Genius 3800 points

Hello I'm using NDK.

I enable dynamic IP (not v6), HTTP and DHCP CLIENT.

I write "tisoc" value in field "Host name".

This value is the name of the host in network ?

If I open Internet Explorer and I digit http://tisoc/home.htm no answer I obtain.

If I use IP address (I read from console  "Network Added: If-1:192.168.3.66") it works

http://192.168.3.66/home.htm

I don't understand how field "Host name" works.

Can someone help me ?

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    Prodigy 60 points

    Hi Maro!

    Not (completly) sure since I never used BIOS on TI.

    But what you're trying to use is a feature from the DHCP server (running on your Router or anywhere in your LAN). This feature there enables the clients (your TI with DHCP client) to give a "hint" to the DHCP server for obtaining an IP address! This hint is also (sometimes) called "host"...


    This has nothing to do with DNS which you are trying to use in your browser in the address line....


    For this you need to look inside your Router (have a look for dnsmasq and others... :-)

    HTH. Salut, Joerg

  • 0 in reply to Joerg Schmitz
    Genius 3800 points

    And so, what is the meaning of field of "Host name" ?

  • 0 in reply to Mauro Fantina
    Prodigy 60 points

    As I said: I dont't use NDK and/or BIOS, but what I know about DHCP is that

    the term "hostname" in combination with a DHCP client hints to something like the following:

    http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-get-linux-static-dhcp-address/

    theoretical background would be:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol#DHCP_options

    and is table "Code 12"....

    This is excactly what I meant with "hinting the server" with our own "hostname"! :-)


    Kind regards, Joerg