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gadget13
Aspirant
Nov 10, 2019

Where are the device names located when in a telnet session?

Several of us are having issues renaming devices on our network. I want to take the GUI out and go to the source via a telnet session. So my question is - where is the device name stored so that I ca...
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gadget13
Aspirant
Nov 12, 2019

I simply applied the v40FW to the router and satelites.

After they reboot the device name duplication was gone and I was able to start setting names as I wanted.

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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Nov 12, 2019

Awesome, thanks or letting us know. 

 

Enjoy. :smileywink:

gadget13 wrote:

I simply applied the v40FW to the router and satelites.

After they reboot the device name duplication was gone and I was able to start setting names as I wanted.