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: