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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...
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.
Since you said that you didn't seem to do a factory reset after loading this version of FW, and now your seen these lock ups, I would give a factory reset on the RBR and setup from scratch a try. Something maybe getting hung up with the newer version of FW and some lingering older FW code may need to be cleared out.
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.
FURRYe38 wrote:Since you said that you didn't seem to do a factory reset after loading this version of FW, and now your seen these lock ups, I would give a factory reset on the RBR and setup from scratch a try. Something maybe getting hung up with the newer version of FW and some lingering older FW code may need to be cleared out.
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.
I did a factory reset which seems to have resored my router stability. The naming problems continue - what a mess.
It's really goofy to see things like one of my satellites listed as wirelessly connnected to my other satelite and both of them name the same thing. I can set my static assignments - and names - just fine. These do not, however, get reflected anywhere else. These firmware releases continue to name things whatever they want.
Oh well - it's on the internet, it routes my packets, and I can continue to do internety things :) Nice work NETGEAR!