[Durham] Wake on Lan over Internet

[Andrew Glass]

Hey

Richard emailed me about etherwake, ive now tried this via my plug
computer and it wakes the server nicely. Thanks Richard  and everyone
who has replied :) next is figuring how to set the sleep policy etc

Cheers
Andy

Sent from my iPhone

On 24 Mar 2012, at 10:26, Richard Patterson <Richard at helpquick.co.uk> wrote:

>>
>> 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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Durham mailing list   -   Durham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/durham
> http://www.nelug.org.uk/