I'm trying to set up the wake-on-lan proxy (http://freshmeat.net/projects/wolp/) on my Bering machine and it isn't working. Here is a snippet from the README file:
"If the target LAN is not the route taken by packets to the broadcast address 255.255.255.255, e.g. on a firewall, where the default route is to the Internet, then you need to install a route entry that says that for packets to the host 255.255.255.255, use the LAN interface." (http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/wolp/README)
I looked at the routes on my firewall with 'ip route show' and sure enough, there is no entry for 255.255.255.255 and the default route goes out to the Internet. So, how do I make this go to the internal network instead?
Right after the paragraph you quote above is this additional snippet:
"You can also specify the IP address and port to send the WOL packet to with the command line -i and -p options. These default to 255.255.255.255 and 0x2fff respectively."
This approach is probably better than fiddling with the router's broadcast address (which could have unintended side effects, for example with DHCP lease acquisition). Specify the IP address as 192.168.1.255 (or whatever the broadcast address is for your LAN) and that should deal with any aspect of your problem that is actually associated with use of an unsuitable broadcast address.
This looks like an interesting app, BTW.
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