Preserve ARP table in MR814?

[calais86]

I'm looking for a way to preserve an ARP entry in the arp cache of a netgear MR814 router. Any ideas? I've tracked down my Wake-On-LAN problems to the arp table of the target being cleared. Also, it doesn't seem that this netgear doesn't have a low-level telnet interfact to manually add the entry.

 

[Chadder007]

How do you know the ARP table is being cleared in the Netgear?

....netgears knowledge base doesn't even list anything in the search for "ARP". LOL

 

[InlineFive]

Forgive my newbieness but what is the ARP table?

 

[oldfart]

ARP = Address Resolution Protocol. It is what resolves a hardware MAC address to an IP address. A table is kept in most devices to cache the entires. Open a command prompt and type in

arp -a

to see how it works. It wont be very exciting unless you are on a lan with some other devices.

 

[calais86]

In the netgear there is a menu item (on the left menu) called "Attached Devices" which lists the attached IP's, Device Names, and MAC Addresses. (I guess ARP was a little too scary sounding... ;-) )

Anyway, right after I turn off my machine, and the machine is still listed in the ARP table, Wake-On-Lan works, i.e., the box turns on when sent the magic packet. When the ARP entry is flushed in 10 - 15 minutes and I send the WOL packet, the box does not turn on. It was suggested by someone who has a linksys that I pick a port and forward all UDP traffic on that port to Broadcast. However, the netgear refuses to allow me to enter the broadcast IP in the "Port Forwarding" menu. I've also upgraded to the latest firmware with no luck.

 

[Chadder007]

Wake on Lan is turned on, in the BIOS and network card settings in Windows on the other PC right?

Also try keeping the ARP address on the PC that you are connecting FROM. You can do so at the command line
Type in something similar to this... ARP -s inet_addr eth_addr [if_addr]
the ARP -s command adds a permanent address to your computers arp table.