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<blockquote data-quote="TheNoctambulist" data-source="post: 1021153" data-attributes="member: 136501">This patch allows the user to configure the broadcast address used for WOL of the TV server to something other than the global 255.255.255.255, e.g. 192.168.5.255.&nbsp;This is needed because of the Win 7 behavior of only sending global broadcasts on one interface. If you have multiple network interfaces (this happened to me after I installed Virtual Box) then the WOL broadcast may not be sent out on the interface that connects to the server. Refer to <a href="http://serverfault.com/questions/72112/how-to-alter-the-global-broadcast-address-255-255-255-255-behavior-on-windows" target="_blank">this </a>discussion on ServerFault for a more detailed explanation of the difference between Win XP and Win 7 behavior with global broadcast.&nbsp;There are two components to the patch<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">WolBroadcastAddress.patch updates the TV plugin to use the configured broadcast address.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">WolBroadcastAddress_SettingsUI.patch adds the broadcast address to the Wake-On-Lan configuration section.</li>
</ol></blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheNoctambulist, post: 1021153, member: 136501"] This patch allows the user to configure the broadcast address used for WOL of the TV server to something other than the global 255.255.255.255, e.g. 192.168.5.255. This is needed because of the Win 7 behavior of only sending global broadcasts on one interface. If you have multiple network interfaces (this happened to me after I installed Virtual Box) then the WOL broadcast may not be sent out on the interface that connects to the server. Refer to [URL='http://serverfault.com/questions/72112/how-to-alter-the-global-broadcast-address-255-255-255-255-behavior-on-windows']this [/URL]discussion on ServerFault for a more detailed explanation of the difference between Win XP and Win 7 behavior with global broadcast. There are two components to the patch [LIST=1] [*]WolBroadcastAddress.patch updates the TV plugin to use the configured broadcast address. [*]WolBroadcastAddress_SettingsUI.patch adds the broadcast address to the Wake-On-Lan configuration section. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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