Do you think I didn’t read this? You obviously saw that I posted it in another comment, and I am mentioning info from the very text you posted here.

(Edit: I am realizing I am coming across as kinda hostile here, but I genuinely just want to understand your thought process behind posting this)

If you read the comments of the answer you copied, the OP of the question also said the following:

The following solutions worked: Static ARP entries and subnet-directed broadcasts. You may use one of both if you have the same scenario. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Them mentioning that one ‘may use one of both’ makes me believe there is a way to make this work properly with unicast. The serverfault post is also mentioning the need to manage several machines this way, which is why I believe the answer you copied suggested using broadcast, as managing ARP entries for several machines could become tedious and unreliable.

Yes, electricity is expensive here and I don’t use it daily.

Yup. And it works already, as long as the server was shut down in the last few hours. Then it stops working. The 4 hours mentioned here seem about right.

Because I want the server to boot when a service on said server is being accessed. Without having to manually boot it before.

I’ll look into my options regarding a different switch or router, thanks.

However your solution with the ESP32 would require me to manually trigger the boot, no? At that point I can just use the magic packet, which works fine already.

I am talking about WoL in unicast mode, not with the magic packet.

Doesn’t make Gates a good person, even if that’s accurate.

In case you want to, here’s a link: https://youtu.be/sZcB4pD8gW4

You did see him praise trump at some kinda tech bro meeting in the white house the other day, right?

In fact my laptop is barely ever opened when I use it lmao

Yeah, I just don’t know what those terms mean lol

I was asking which one I need to choose to wake my server io whenever I try sending packets to it

Would that be multicast or broadcast activity? Or unicast?

Thanks for the tip regarding the IP segment, that seemed to be it. I needed to use the correct broadcast IP for the subnet (I think? I’m bad with networks. I used 192.168.2.255 instead of 255.255.255.255, and now it works)

And yeah, I am looking to get a router at some point. Hard to make such a purchase when I’m struggling to make ends meet currently, though.

How would this explain the packet not reaching the server in a powered on state?

Why not make one?

Or just use Debian

Fair point

Do you need windows running on bare metal? I’m quite happy with a VM for all my windows usage. For example the mouse I use has a config tool that only works on windows

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Nvidia drivers are a bit more of a hassle than amd but apparently bazzite does a good job at working out of the box with nvidia.