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Forwarding to broadcast mostly got turned off as it was an early source of DoS attacks (send a single spoofed packet to a broadcast address, hundreds of devices send a reply to your target that gets swamped with traffic). Lots of devices will not let you enable it because it is considered dangerous. I'd put something on the LAN which is always on and originate the WOL packets from that.
jellybaby
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trying to set up Wake on LAN on some machines ata work, Virgin business hub router won't accept xxx.xxx.0.255 as a target IP address for port forwarding, that's my only option to broadcast to the whole network right?
Currently can't get it working to a specific IP either.edit got it working to one specific PC forwarding ports to just that onedouble edit: seems you can't forward a port to more than one IP, which makes sense I guess, so I need that broadcast IP somehow.