[Durham] Wake on Lan over Internet

[Richard Patterson]

> 
> In theory, you just need to open a port on the router which forwards to the
> PC you want to wake. Then just send a packet to that port which contains
> somewhere within it the magic string:
> 6 bytes of 0xFF followed by 16 copies of the 48 bit MAC address.
> This string can appear anywhere in the packet.
> 
> That's the theory, anyway! I haven't tried it in practice.
> 

I would imagine that you'd need to set a static arp entry on the router for the PC in question... Otherwise when it's off / asleep, it'll not be replying to arp requests. And the packet will never be sent (ICMP Destination unreachable will be returned?)

Regards

Richard