Mac Loses Network Connection while Sleeping (Wake for Network Access ENABLED)

I have "Wake for Ethernet network access" enabled in my Energy Saver preferences. However, it appears that my Mac disconnects from the network entirely when it sleeps; therefore, this does not work when I am trying to connect while it's asleep.
I suspect this because it always takes a moment to connect to the network when I wake it up. Webpages don't load until about 30 seconds after the computer wakes up. I can't connect to my Mac over the Internet (with my port forwarding enabled) anymore, which is a big problem.

The article isn't very clear, but I've seen from a Google search "wake on LAN on Mac" that people think that the setting in Energy Saver enables simple wake on LAN as well. Maybe it does both. Wake on Demand has the advantages of advertising the sleeping Mac's services via Bonjour and responding to pings without waking up the sleeping Mac.
To be honest, I hardly know how Bonjour works, just that it's used to discover Apple devices on a network and that it gives each Mac an alternate hostname that you can use (for example, Bobs-Mac-Pro).. It seems like the Bonjour Sleep Proxy would only work if you're connecting via Bonjour to the Mac. If you connect directly by the IP address (192.168.1.12 for example), the router must send that straight to that Mac and not through a Bonjour Sleep Proxy (because how would it know to look for a BSP?). I tried connecting by address to my Mac from a computer on LAN while my Mac was asleep, and it woke up. It used to do that over the Internet, but now it doesn't, which is my problem. I was going to take it a step further and cut out any Bonjour Sleep Proxies totally by connecting the computers directly with ethernet, but that caused my Mac to refuse to sleep at all.

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Mac Pro keeps crashing while sleeping. Just did a clean install of Yosemite so not a lot of extras loaded on this machine.
Crash log is below, can anyone help?
Crash log
Anonymous UUID: F22DEA9F-F3D7-E141-BC81-27F54620A33A
Sat Dec 27 09:48:40 2014
*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 4 caller 0xffffff80105ff683): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0x84, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2782.1.97/osfmk/x86_64/pmap.c:2471
Backtrace (CPU 4), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80e1953970 : 0xffffff801053a811
0xffffff80e19539f0 : 0xffffff80105ff683
0xffffff80e1953a80 : 0xffffff8010605913
0xffffff80e1953b70 : 0xffffff80106065e5
0xffffff80e1953bd0 : 0xffffff80105b6b4a
0xffffff80e1953ce0 : 0xffffff80105acd2c
0xffffff80e1953d10 : 0xffffff80105a9013
0xffffff80e1953d40 : 0xffffff8010a79eb0
0xffffff80e1953d60 : 0xffffff8010afe8e3
0xffffff80e1953dc0 : 0xffffff80105e8e54
0xffffff80e1953e10 : 0xffffff801053e91c
0xffffff80e1953e40 : 0xffffff80105235a3
0xffffff80e1953e90 : 0xffffff8010533e8d
0xffffff80e1953f10 : 0xffffff801060a142
0xffffff80e1953fb0 : 0xffffff801063ac66
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: UserEventAgent
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14B25
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Message was edited by: plikka

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Hi guys,
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Thanks for the help. Looked but not clear on what I am trying to do as being possible. Can I use an Airport Express to connect wireless to a Linksys Wireless Router, such that I can then use the Ethernet ports on the Airport to either connected to a PC wired, or even use a hub off the Airport Express to allow multiple wired connections to it?
I am not looking to have the Airport Express extend my wireless network, just connect to it and provide me wired connections in a different location from where my Linksys Route is located. Would prefer to replace Linksys with all Apple, but just not possible financially yet. Thanks for the help.

If the AirPort Express Base Station (AX) is an 802.11n model, then yes, you can reconfigure it as a wireless Ethernet bridge. In this configuration, the AX would join the wireless network provided by the Linksys router and its Ethernet port would be enabled for either a single wired device or for an Ethernet hub or switch for multiple devices.

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