Computer Shows up as "unknown" in Router

[Robbo]

On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:19 -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a D-link router, and have three ubuntu boxes at home. When I
> got the router management page and look at the DHCP clients that are
> connected to the router, I see either "unknown" or " " as the name for
> the ubuntu boxes. Managing these becomes a pain, as i have to resort
> to finding out the MAC address to do this.
> 
> The Winxp boxes have their designated names.
> 
> The hostname for the ubuntu boxes are et, and they are not set to
> "unknown" or " "
> 
> Can someone help me name my ubuntu machines so that the router will
> know them by name? Thank you.
> Carthik.

Have a look at the config file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf for the option
send host-name.  For example...

send host-name "foo.example.com"