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pk_fox · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: Wake on LAN remotely

Hello All, I've searched these forums and the Web but cannot find a satisfactory answer to my problem ( no jibes please ! ). My home machine ( FC2 ) has an onboard ethernet card ( VIA VT6102 ) with wake on lan enabled in the bios and sits behind a Linksys router with port forwarding setup for the machine I wish to "wake". Try as I might I cannot wake it up either remotely or from my local lan, I've tried etherwake , wol and various web based tools all to no avail, has anyone had any luck with this

regards

Pete

linuxgirlie · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:12 pm Post subject: RE: Wake on LAN remotely

For Karoshi we use WakeLan, but this we just use for the local network not though a router....
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Guest · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:44 pm Post subject: RE: Wake on LAN remotely

Are you sure WOL is actually working on the box? The first thing I would check is that it works locally, without going through the router etc - can you check it with a laptop and a crossover cable?

pk_fox · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:58 am Post subject:

thanks I'll try it later

regards

Pete Kane

lala · Guest

If I understand things correctly, Wake on LAN is working at the ethernet layer and therefore the wake on lan frame is not forwarded through a router which makes decisions at the IP layer. Therefore, your machines need to be on the same subnet for this to work.