On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 12:19:17PM +0100, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
So either 1) Each router doles out IP addresses based on Mac addresses. Each router has a range of IP addresses that doesn't overlap with other locations. One hosts file on your laptop that lists all the IP addresses and friendly names for them. Zero cost. A bit tedious to set up, but shouldn't take too long or be too hard to maintain.
Yes, tedious, I was looking/hoping for something simpler.
2) Run DNSMasq everywhere. Quite easy to set up, with possibly the cost of one processing device to run it on. Simple to maintain.
3) See if Avahi/Zero Config will do it for you
4) do 1) but without the hosts file. Maintain a manual list of IP addresses and refer to it.
5) Do nothing and put up with not knowing which IP address each device has, except by trail and error.
6) Run something like nmap or nbtscan or other tool listed here http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/saucy/man1/nbtscan.1.html to work out which IP address is which.
This last is what I do at present really, a combination of nmap and arp-scan. -- Chris Green