Danny8;591229 Wrote: > *Shawje,* what is the lease duration setting of your router's DHCP > server? Maybe that accounts for the noted behavior. You could increase > the lease time.
Thanks for the various suggestions. Yes, I was trying to wake a Mac that was connected wirelessly to the network. I have set the lease time to infinte so the server's IP address does not change. With my old router I used to set the network up with static IPs and I'm not entirely sure I know the difference between static IPs and infinte leases using DHCP. I think this issue may have something to do with ARP tables on the router rather than IP addresses. I think the WOL packet should be broadcast to all IP addresses on the network, but it's all a bit beyond my pay grade. Am trying a new fix which is to move my wireless repeater bridge next to the Mac to allow an ethernet connection to the repeater bridge. The problem is that the wireless repeater is now a long way from the main modem/router, which may or may not prove to be an issue. Life is made a bit more complicated by having a repeater bridge, because the main router seems to see all kit attached to the repeater bridge as having the MAC address of the repeater, rather than its own unique MAC address. I think this may put the kybosh on Gordon's suggestion of using the SB radio to wake the server, because the SB radio probably won't see the correct MAC address for the server. But provided the SB radio's alarm clock will function reliably without a valid connection to the server (which should be sleeping at 6.45am), I should be able to use an iphone app to wake the server manually to get my morning fix of BBC radio using the Iplayer plugin (critical for the sanity of a British expat in Australia). Will post any progress. By the way, flashing an old Linksys router with DD-WRT firmware to enable its use as a repeater bridge, has, WoWLan excepted, been rather effective and free way of getting a good wireless signal around a large house. -- shawje ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shawje's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37017 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
