Can the name under which an OpenWrt router appears in the device list of another router be changed in the web interface?
Detail on: My OpenWrt router shows up as "Unknown" in the list of connected devices of a higher-up router (a cable modem connected to the Internet; the OpenWrt router acts as firewall behind it, to which all of my networked computers devices are connected). I'm using a TP-Link TL-WR841N with openwrt-15.05.1-ar71xx-generic-tl-wr841n-v10-squashfs-factory with LuCI interface-
The list is displayed by the higher-up router, which assigns an IP to the OpenWrt router via DHCP. I have no idea how it fetches the names of connected devices. However it does it, it gets the name of another device (a Sky streaming box) correctly.
Thanks, that helped. What did the trick was to manually enter the desired name under Network->Interfaces->WAN->"Hostname to send when requesting DHCP'". In the web interface, that field was already filled out (with the name previously entered under System->Hostname) but that was not picked up by the upstream router. After entering the desired name manually, it worked (after stopping and re-connecting).