seanadams;172362 Wrote: > When the SB3 is operating in bridging mode, it keeps track of who is on > the ethernet side and who is on the wireless side - it knows where to > send a packet. >
What happens when it doesn't know who's on which side? Reason I'm asking this, is that I'm trying to use WOL to wake up my living room PC from internet (using e.g. dslreports.com's wakeup service http://www.dslreports.com/wakeup). If I send a WOL magic packet from my local net it of course spreads via WLAN to SB3 and, as it is a broadcast packet, SB3 forwards it to the ethernet port and the PC wakes up. When I'm using the dslreports' 'service' the packet comes to my network as a _unicast_ packet. I have configured my ADSL-modem/router with static ARP for the PC, and a rule to forward UDP port 9 packets to the PC's IP address. When I've connected the PC to one of the ADSL-modem/router's ethernet ports send the packet from internet, my PC wakes up. When I place the PC on SB3's ethernet port and send the packet from the same site the PC stays powered off. In my understanding there might be two reasons for this. - Either the ADSL device forgets to forward the packet to WLAN along with all the ethernet ports, or - SB3 drops the packet as it doesn't know that the addressee is on its ethernet port. After some email exchange with the tech guys from modem manufacturer, they assure me that all packets that are distributed to the ethernet ports will also be sent to WLAN. If this is the case, then the SB3 drops the packet and I'd like to know whether it would be possible to change the behavior of SB3's IP stack in such a way, that if it doesn't know (no entry in ARP table?) the recipients 'location' on the net, it would forward the packet? Best regards, Mika -- hau ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hau's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4495 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31850 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
