Hi all. New Squeezebox 3 owner here, trying to get Wake-on-LAN to work over a bridged network.
The configuration is as follows: . Squeezebox connected wirelessly to a Belkin F5D8230-4 wireless router (which works well according to http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?RouterStatus). . Slimserver running on Mac Mini connected via wired ethernet to a Netgear WGPS606 wireless print server. This print server includes a wireless/ethernet bridge and built-in 4 port ethernet hub. The Mac Mini is connected to the 4-port hub and the WGPS606 is connected wirelessly to the Belkin router, acting as a bridge between the two. Everything works apart from Wake-on-LAN. A quick network trace with Ethereal shows the problem: the Squeezebox is broadcasting an ARP request to find the MAC address on its network segment associated with it's configured IP address for the Slimserver. Because the WGPS606 is bridging the wireless side and its built-in 4 port wired hub where the Slimserver is actually located, it correctly responds back with its own wireless MAC address. The Squeezebox then uses that MAC address to generate the Magic Packet and broadcasts it. The WGPS606 forwards the broadcasted magic packet to its wired hub side, but because it contains the MAC address of the WGPS606 and not the Mac Mini, the Mac Mini does not wake up. If I use a tool like the Magic Packet generator from www.depicus.com, configure it to broadcast a Magic Packet containing the Mac Mini's ethernet MAC address, and broadcast this from a laptop connected wirelessly to the Belkin router, the Mac Mini wakes up just fine. Similarly if I attach a Squeezebox via wired ethernet to the WPGS606's 4-port hub, it wakes the Mac Mini fine (since there is no bridging in this case, the Squeezebox's ARP request results in the Mac Mini's MAC address as the response). My question is: can the Squeezebox be configured to use a manually supplied MAC address (or one retrieved by the Slimserver software from its host) to generate the Magic Packet, rather than it using ARP to try and work out the MAC address of the Slimserver host? Would this require an enhancement to the Squeezebox firmware or Slimserver software? I'm sure anyone wishing to use a Squeezebox wirelessly and use the Squeezebox's capability to wake up the computer running the Slimserver software by using a wireless/ethernet bridge would greatly value this capability. -- Creeky ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Creeky's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9566 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31561 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
