router/firewall address

[ITwannabee]

Hi guys...

I have a question. how do i change the address of the router? for example, when i use IE i type 192.168.0.1 or something in the address. How do i change that so i can type the word "router" on the address instead of numbers. One of the guys showed me how to do it but i forgot. Please let me know if i'm not explaining this clear enough.

Thanks..

 

[office politics]

change the name of the router. this relates to netbios name to address translation.

what make & model router?

 

[ITwannabee]

well, the consultant that came to work yesterday did something. i purchased this anti-spam called the Barracuda. instead of typing 192.168.10.1 in the web address, i can now type http://antispam:8000. He could've named it anything he wanted to. How did he do this? it seemed pretty simple so i didn't really bother paying attention but now, i can't figure it out.

 

[office politics]

look to change the name of the router in its config or change it NetBios name. you could prolly also modify your lmhosts file locally on your machine for a manual name to ip translation

from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...elp/4fbaebbb-6334-4b26-8118-cb36a261978a.mspx

NetBIOS name resolution
NetBIOS name resolution means successfully mapping a NetBIOS name to an IP address. A NetBIOS name is a 16-byte address that is used to identify a NetBIOS resource on the network. A NetBIOS name is either a unique (exclusive) or group (nonexclusive) name. When a NetBIOS process is communicating with a specific process on a specific computer, a unique name is used. When a NetBIOS process is communicating with multiple processes on multiple computers, a group name is used.

An example of a process that uses a NetBIOS name is the File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks service on a computer running Windows XP Professional. When your computer starts up, this service registers a unique NetBIOS name based on the name of your computer. The exact name used by the service is the 15-character computer name plus a 16th character of 0x20. If the computer name is not 15 characters long, it is padded with spaces up to 15 characters.

When you attempt to make a file-sharing connection to a computer by using its computer name, the File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks service on the file server you specify corresponds to a specific NetBIOS name. For example, when you attempt to connect to a computer called CORPSERVER, the NetBIOS name corresponding to the File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks service on that computer is: