Hi,
I'm trying to set up wake on lan on my Vista PC. I've had a bit of success but still need some help. I have a magic packet sniffer set up on the PC to check if it is receiving packets. On my networked laptop I am trying to send magic packets. I'm using a wake on lan program from magicpacket.free.fr
So far I've sent packets using 4 different configurations:
1.
IP address (192.168.100.150)
subnet mask 255.255.255.255
port 9
mac address (xx-xx-xx-xx-xx)
2. IP address (192.168.100.150)
subnet mask 0.0.0.0
port 9
mac address
3. external IP address (66.183.50.30)
subnet mask 255.255.255.255
port 9
mac address
4. external IP address (66.183.30.50)
subnet mask 0.0.0.0
port 9
mac address
All four configuration send magic packets to the Vista PC which show up on the packet sniffer (I have port 9 forwarding to 192.168.100.150). However, only configurations 2 and 4 will actually wake up PC if it is sleeping. I don't understand why that would be case. This is important to me because in the end I want to use my linux NAS to send a magic packet to the Vista PC. However, the program that I have on the NAS for this purpose does not allow me to set the subnet mask. I suspect that it defaults to 255.255.255.255, because the NAS is unable to wake up the Vista PC (but when awake the Vista PC receives the packet just like all of the examples above).
thanks
I'm trying to set up wake on lan on my Vista PC. I've had a bit of success but still need some help. I have a magic packet sniffer set up on the PC to check if it is receiving packets. On my networked laptop I am trying to send magic packets. I'm using a wake on lan program from magicpacket.free.fr
So far I've sent packets using 4 different configurations:
1.
IP address (192.168.100.150)
subnet mask 255.255.255.255
port 9
mac address (xx-xx-xx-xx-xx)
2. IP address (192.168.100.150)
subnet mask 0.0.0.0
port 9
mac address
3. external IP address (66.183.50.30)
subnet mask 255.255.255.255
port 9
mac address
4. external IP address (66.183.30.50)
subnet mask 0.0.0.0
port 9
mac address
All four configuration send magic packets to the Vista PC which show up on the packet sniffer (I have port 9 forwarding to 192.168.100.150). However, only configurations 2 and 4 will actually wake up PC if it is sleeping. I don't understand why that would be case. This is important to me because in the end I want to use my linux NAS to send a magic packet to the Vista PC. However, the program that I have on the NAS for this purpose does not allow me to set the subnet mask. I suspect that it defaults to 255.255.255.255, because the NAS is unable to wake up the Vista PC (but when awake the Vista PC receives the packet just like all of the examples above).
thanks