deckofficer54 wrote

I can see the device in my DHCP pool and I have even set a reserved IP for it. I was requested by support to configure a forwarding rule for the UDP broadcast to be directed to the devices IP. So far i cannot find anything in the Archer C9 router.

This is all local, not initiated from outside of my LAN.

Forwarding of broadcasts makes no sense in a local network, since such data is broadcasted to any connected device by default, hence the name "broadcast".

But it seems to be a nice joke on April's fool day.

Forwarding broadcasts would only be needed if you want them to pass a subnet border, for example, from LAN to DMZ or from LAN to WHATEVER. But this is very tricky to achieve (to which device the answers should be sent?), so it is best to bridge two different networks in order to make broadcasts available to both.

Yes, this sometimes is needed, so it's actually no good joke for the April's fool day. :D

You're welcome. Yes, support probably thought you use a regular router.