WOL - setting ip address to forward to

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Im trying to get wake-on-lan to work, Ive enabled it in my motherboard.
My NIC supports it and since the motherboard is PCI 2.2 compliant I
*dont* have a cable running from the NIC's WOL connector to the
motherboards WOL connector.

I know my NIC's MAC address.

In the router, I have selected to forward anything on PORT 9 (UDP), but
the problem is it doesnt allow me to forward to a MAC address only to
an IP address. Since the router automatically assigns a new ip
address to the computer I want to wake, I dont know what the ip address
will be. I can set my computer to a static ip address, but wont this
cause a conflict with the dhcp of the router?

Alterantively, I can assign an aribitrary IP address in the router
(within the local LAN IP range), but is there perhaps a default IP
address in the NIC itself that needs to be used?? If so, how can I find
my NICs IP address?

Im using this to test:
http://stephan.mestrona.net/wol/
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx

Thanks!
 
Im trying to get wake-on-lan to work, Ive enabled it in my
motherboard. My NIC supports it and since the motherboard is PCI 2.2
compliant I *dont* have a cable running from the NIC's WOL connector
to the motherboards WOL connector.

I know my NIC's MAC address.

In the router, I have selected to forward anything on PORT 9 (UDP),
but the problem is it doesnt allow me to forward to a MAC address
only to an IP address. Since the router automatically assigns a new
ip address to the computer I want to wake, I dont know what the ip
address will be. I can set my computer to a static ip address, but
wont this cause a conflict with the dhcp of the router?
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Most routers will allow you to specify a particular ip for
one of the connected systems and do dhcp for the rest.

And most dhcp servers in most routers use quite long
lease times, so while in theory the ip can be anything,
they dont necessarily change that much in practice.
Alterantively, I can assign an aribitrary IP address in the router
(within the local LAN IP range), but is there perhaps a default IP
address in the NIC itself that needs to be used??
Click to expand...

There is no default ip with nics, just with some devices like routers.
If so, how can I find my NICs IP address?
Click to expand...

Nothing to find.
 
Im trying to get wake-on-lan to work, Ive enabled it in my motherboard.
My NIC supports it and since the motherboard is PCI 2.2 compliant I
*dont* have a cable running from the NIC's WOL connector to the
motherboards WOL connector.

I know my NIC's MAC address.

In the router, I have selected to forward anything on PORT 9 (UDP), but
the problem is it doesnt allow me to forward to a MAC address only to
an IP address. Since the router automatically assigns a new ip
address to the computer I want to wake, I dont know what the ip address
will be. I can set my computer to a static ip address, but wont this
cause a conflict with the dhcp of the router?

Alterantively, I can assign an aribitrary IP address in the router
(within the local LAN IP range), but is there perhaps a default IP
address in the NIC itself that needs to be used?? If so, how can I find
my NICs IP address?

Im using this to test:
http://stephan.mestrona.net/wol/
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx

Thanks!
Click to expand...

Have you tested with an Ethernet cable connected directly
between two computers ? That will help prove whether the
basic WOL feature is working or not.

If one of the machines has a gigabit Ethernet interface, then
the cable type doesn't matter. If the machines are 10/100BT
types, then a crossover Ethernet cable will work.
(The Gigabit ethernet chips tend to support MDI/MDIX which
has the ability to cross the signals digitally inside
the chip, as needed. Older chips cannot cross over on their
own, requiring a crossover cable. My crossover cable has
a red connector and a blue connector, to tell me it is a
crossover type.)

Paul
 
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