| Netgear WGR614 v1 Router and Broadcast to .255 ? Hi,
does anyone knows how this could work?
I'd like to broadcast the magic packet on my LAN to every PC... so 192.168.0.255 I thought... but when I try to configure my WGR614 v1 to forward port 9 to this port, it gives me the error: invalid, legal range 0...255 - but 255 does not work!!
how can I manage this?
Is it a software bug ? perhaps the error message should be: legal range from 0....254 ?
bye,
__Cheese__ |
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| Can we have some more information regarding the port forwarding rules that you are making in router.
Router will not be forwarding the subnet 255 in router.I am pretty sure that subnet broadcasting is not possible through router.
But still I need to understand what you are trying to do.
Cheers |
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| Hi,
I try to make a wake-on-lan via the internet...
and I thought of forwarding UDP port 9 to the adress 192.168.0.255 and send on this way the magic packet to my specific computer with MAC I know...
It works if shutdown the computer and wake it up within a few minutes - but after some hours it don't work again...
(perhaps the ARP Table is deleted in the router?)
So I need to send the magic packet 'broadcast' to my lan and thought of broadcast adress 192.168.0.255
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| Hi,
ok, found the fix or workaround in a different topic here...
Just change the subnet of the router to 255.255.255.128 and then change the port forward for the wol package port (e.g. 9) to 192.168.0.127  because .127 is then the broadcast IP...
Now it Works ... woooaaaahhh !
bye,
__Cheese__ |
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| I have the same Problem, but for me this is not working.
I Have a wgr614 v2 with latest bios update!
Maybe someone could give me a hand? |
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 trodas
join:2003-05-24
Massapequa, NY | reply to __Cheese__
__Cheese__ - whoa, that's fantastic solution 
I always tough that the subnet numbers can be only 255 or 0, and in fact just dedicating the size of the network 
It looks like i missed something, when the subnet settings can be used this way
...it make me curious, can be the slow Attached Devices page make faster, when i set the subnet to just let me say 255.255.255.64 ...? 
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