BosseSwede
Regular Contributor
I have never gotten local access between computers working on my home LAN without manually entering the target devices into the hosts file on each computer (both Windows and Linux).
I really dislike this because if a computer connects to the LAN using a new ethernet adapter it gets a new IP from my router via DHCP but that is then not used for other devices so they cannot connect. What can I do to get all devices get the correct IP of another device from the ASUS RT-AX86U PRO router if they use the device's host name to connect?
Should not the router know the hostname/IP connection when it has assigned all device IP addresses itself via DHCP?
Is it a router setting or is it a local setting (different for Linux and Windows then I assume)?
Or can it not be done?
Router stock f/w is: 3.0.0.6.102_34349
I really dislike this because if a computer connects to the LAN using a new ethernet adapter it gets a new IP from my router via DHCP but that is then not used for other devices so they cannot connect. What can I do to get all devices get the correct IP of another device from the ASUS RT-AX86U PRO router if they use the device's host name to connect?
Should not the router know the hostname/IP connection when it has assigned all device IP addresses itself via DHCP?
Is it a router setting or is it a local setting (different for Linux and Windows then I assume)?
Or can it not be done?
Router stock f/w is: 3.0.0.6.102_34349
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