WOL -- settign ip address to forward to

13 Aug 2006 8:29 PM

benn686

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 NICs 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 dont know what the ip address of my computer
will be.

I can assign it an aribitrary IP address within my local LAN IP range,
but is there a default IP address of the card that needs to be used??
If so, how can I find my NICs IP address?

Once I get it working, Ill use
http://stephan.mestrona.net/wol/
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx

Thanks!

13 Aug 2006 9:25 PM

Sooner Al [MVP]

You need to setup and use a static IP for that particular PC...

http://www.portforward.com/networking/static-xp.htm

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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 NICs 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 dont know what the ip address of my computer
> will be.
>
> I can assign it an aribitrary IP address within my local LAN IP range,
> but is there a default IP address of the card that needs to be used??
> If so, how can I find my NICs IP address?
>
> Once I get it working, Ill use
> http://stephan.mestrona.net/wol/
> http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx
>
> Thanks!
>

26 Aug 2006 8:08 PM

Timothy Baldwin

In message <#FdkD8xvGHA.5***@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, Sooner Al [MVP]
<Soone***@somewhere.net.invalid> wrote:

> You need to setup and use a static IP for that particular PC...
>
> http://www.portforward.com/networking/static-xp.htm

Wrong, he needs to use the broadcast address.

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14 Aug 2006 11:36 AM

Hans-Georg Michna

On 13 Aug 2006 13:29:36 -0700, benn***@hotmail.com wrote:

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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 NICs 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 dont know what the ip address of my computer
>will be.
>
>I can assign it an aribitrary IP address within my local LAN IP range,
>but is there a default IP address of the card that needs to be used??
>If so, how can I find my NICs IP address?
>
>Once I get it working, Ill use
>http://stephan.mestrona.net/wol/
>http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx

Since a computer, that isn't switched on, has no IP address,
forwarding to an IP address will probably not work. If the IP
address were a problem, you could use a broadcast address.

But, as far as I know, this does not work with most routers, and
I suspect that those, with which it will work, help things a
little bit, but I don't know how.

(If anybody here has anything like that funktioning, please let
me know how exactly it works and with which router.)

My recommendation would be to investigate thoroughly whether
your router supports Wake On LAN over the Internet. Some
routers, like mine, do it.

The whole story is at http://winhlp.com/WxWOL.htm .

Hans-Georg

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