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xcodexif

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From: France

Registered: 2013-10-31

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Wake on Wan and NICs

Hello everyone,

I have four network cards here that have an interesting behavior : they use the 5VSB all the time, so they remain ethernetly connected and their "activity" LED blink when broadcast packets are received (I think, I haven't tested anything).

But I wonder if, at shutdown, theses NICs can "keep" their IP and thereby stay in the ARP table of dirty internet providers modems/routers ?
In this case, WoL packets could be NATed and the computer be powered up.

Second question : If the first method is not possible, does a NIC keep its IP when computer is in sleep/suspended mode ?

And if someone have a better costless idea for doing Wake on Wan through a NAT, it would be great !

Thanks in advance

Last edited by xcodexif (2014-08-27 12:45:37)