WOL behind router

Posted: 07-09-2003, 03:47 AM

David Shorthouse

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Hey folks,

I have a great Linksys NIC that allows for both wake-on-LAN via magic
packets (useless for my needs) or via ping / any other access (what I need).
Consequently, when I forward specific ports in my router (like VPN or Remote
Desktop), I can remotely fire up my suspended machine from the WAN side and
access it no sweat.

I just set-up a second machine behind the same router but it has a
Realtek onboard NIC. All I seem to be able to do is WOL via magic packets.
In other words, I cannot wake the machine up from the WAN side because I
don't know of any way to send the packet through the router. Simply
forwarding the same port any WOL utility uses doesn't solve the problem- the
MAC address of the machine I want to fire up is hidden from the WAN side.
Any ideas on how I can get this to work as efficiently as possible?

Dave

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Ken Wickes [MSFT]

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Re: WOL behind router

Posted: 07-09-2003, 04:09 AM

Get the first machine to wake the second? <g>

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"David Shorthouse" <davidshorthouse@shawnocrapmail.ca> wrote in message
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> Hey folks,
>
> I have a great Linksys NIC that allows for both wake-on-LAN via magic
> packets (useless for my needs) or via ping / any other access (what I

need).

> Consequently, when I forward specific ports in my router (like VPN or

Remote

> Desktop), I can remotely fire up my suspended machine from the WAN side

and

> access it no sweat.
>
> I just set-up a second machine behind the same router but it has a
> Realtek onboard NIC. All I seem to be able to do is WOL via magic packets.
> In other words, I cannot wake the machine up from the WAN side because I
> don't know of any way to send the packet through the router. Simply
> forwarding the same port any WOL utility uses doesn't solve the problem-

the

> MAC address of the machine I want to fire up is hidden from the WAN side.
> Any ideas on how I can get this to work as efficiently as possible?
>
> Dave
>
>

David Shorthouse

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Re: WOL behind router

Posted: 07-09-2003, 05:45 AM

Well, yes I can do that, but that's why I wrote "efficient" <g>

> Get the first machine to wake the second? <g>
>
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> Ken Wickes [MSFT]
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