setting ip address to forward to

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!

On 13 Aug 2006 15:05:15 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote in
<(E-Mail Removed) .com>:

>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


Read up on Wake-on-LAN; e.g., <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN>

What you need is router support for directed broadcasts, which most
low-end routers lack because directed-broadcasts is a security risk
(Smurf attacks) and isn't of much interest to the home market in any
event. Thus you'll normally find this only in more sophisticated
products

Buffalo AirStation 125 High-Speed Mode Wireless Secure Remote Gateway
<http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=88>
Explicit Wake-On-LAN feature

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