Wake on LAN question

[TechnoPro]

It's not the mechanics of how to open a port, but rather the fact that I am forwarding a port to the IP address of a machine that is powered down...And I thought that a powered-off PC had no IP address.

This minor detail has me confused.

All I want to do is turn on a PC from outside my LAN. Any ideas?

EDIT:

Some research tells me that I should forward the port to the broadcast address of my subnet, in my case 192.168.0.255. The router won't accept it, though. Will any SOHO routers allow this?

 

[ColdZero]

http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/9389

Check that out.

http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/wol

That too.

You can do it, I have a little webpage here at work for people who VPN in who want to wake their computers up so they can work on them. It just has a list of Computers that are associated with mac address, they select the computer and click wakeup and it goes.

 

[JackMDS]

To do it easily from the outside you need a Cable/DSL Router that is On and keeps the Internet connection alive.

Since the port is forwarded in the Router it keeps stored in its memory the Port, and MAC address, of the computer to be Waked so it knows were to send the Magic packet to.

More here: Wake On LAN (WOL) - Start a Network Computer Remotely from your Network or the Internet.

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[ColdZero]

http://www.ubilight.com/

You can test it out to see if it works using that page

 

[jparnell]

I'm currently trying to do this too...
I couldnt work out how the magic packet would be forwarded to a computer that isnt switched on as it wont have an IP address though. Therefore isnt the only way to do it is to forward to x.x.x.255?

 

[JackMDS]

I guess that people do not like to read links that might solve their problem.

If the computer is Directly On the Internet by itself Extrenal IP and magic packet IP might work.

Otherwise:

NO Private IP would work. USE MAC ADDRESS IN CONJUNCTION WITH SPECIFIC PORT.

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[jparnell]

Ok..cheers