[Deaf-lug] Wake on LAN

[Fintan Gaughan]

On 27/02/07, andrew arthur <andrew.arthur at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Wake On LAN facility is usually enabled in the BIOS. This machine wakes
> with the mouse or keyboard buttons as well (Phoenix BIOS). So you have to
> turn it on from there and I think that enables the ports in the LAN card.
> To wake from the Internet could be tricky because of all the stray junk
> signals flying around. Also having woken it, you need to stop it again
> unless you want it to run all the time. YOu could probably set it to
> automatically hibernate.
> I haven't tried this but perhaps a VPN would cause it to wake when the
> router gets a signal for that particular address.
> Basically what you are trying to do is turn it on and off remotely and I
> think it's probably easier to just leave it running.
>
>
> --

I am able to do this within the network at home. I was hoping to do it
from work so I can wake the computer up and shut it down when needed
just to save on electric bill save environment etc

I suspect its my router as someone said some routers let the magic
packet through to turn computer on.
Looks like I have to get my wife to turn computer one when she is at
home but I can turn it off via ssh

Fintan