WOL over internet

[PlastikSpork]

I am trying to get Wake on Lan to work over the internet. So far I am able to wake my server from with in the LAN. I have opened UDP port 666 on my router and all settings are, as far as I could tell, correct. Using "WOL - Magic Packet Sender" on my server and putting it on the Receive tab I was able to receive the magic packet from my laptop over the internet. See picture below. "WOL - Magic Packet sender" on the left is on my server over a remote session and the window on the right is the WOL program on my laptop sending the magic packet.

Here are my device settings on my NIC.

I have also tried several other programs as well without any luck.

 

[masteryoda34]

In my experience WOL over internet does not work consistently.

Instead, my recommendation is to use a router with DD-WRT. You can then log into your router's admin page remotely and click a button to send the magic packet to your computer. The router then sends the packet to the computer which is much more reliable. Works for me every time.

 

[PlastikSpork]

In my experience WOL over internet does not work consistently.

Instead, my recommendation is to use a router with DD-WRT. You can then log into your router's admin page remotely and click a button to send the magic packet to your computer. The router then sends the packet to the computer which is much more reliable. Works for me every time.

I see... currently I am using the Router/modem combo from my ISP. Westell 7500 and I do not see anything related to WOL for that router. So basically I would have to put Westell into Bridge mode to turn off the router and then use a router that supports WOL?

 

[Gillbot]

In my experience WOL over internet does not work consistently.

Instead, my recommendation is to use a router with DD-WRT. You can then log into your router's admin page remotely and click a button to send the magic packet to your computer. The router then sends the packet to the computer which is much more reliable. Works for me every time.

This ^

Honestly, I opted for an even easier solution with LogMeIn free edition. It seems to always work. If you search here, I made a thread and there was some lengthy discussion about this, but in the end it was unreliable.

 

[stuartl89]

Wake on Lan relies on the networks in between where the computer you are sending the packet from and the destination routing a multicast packet. Most networks do not allow this type of traffic for a number of reasons.

On the network at work we have allowed multicast traffic to be sent from a single IP. I wrote a server that sits on a port and waits for a connection from one of the wake on lan clients I wrote and then creates a magic packet and targets the computers subnet and sends the packet. Getting our netadmins to allow this type of traffic from even a single IP was a bit of work. Anyone remember the days of smurf attacks?

I guess what I am trying to say is, give up on trying to wake a computer up from anywhere off of your local subnet.

-S