WOL behind router

[David Shorthouse]

Hey folks,

I have a great Linksys NIC that allows for both wake-on-LAN via magic
packets (useless for my needs) or via ping / any other access (what I need).
Consequently, when I forward specific ports in my router (like VPN or Remote
Desktop), I can remotely fire up my suspended machine from the WAN side and
access it no sweat.

I just set-up a second machine behind the same router but it has a
Realtec onboard NIC. All I seem to be able to do is WOL via magic packets.
In other words, I cannot wake the machine up from the WAN side because I
don't know of any way to send the packet through the router. Simply
forwarding the same port any WOL utility uses doesn't solve the problem- the
MAC address of the machine I want to fire up is hidden from the WAN side.
Any ideas on how I can get this to work as efficiently as possible?

Dave

 

[David Shorthouse]

OK, thanks for the tip.

Dave

You might want to post this in the networking group... Bill is our
resident WOL guru, but he hasn't been around here lately.... You
might get a faster response in the other newsgroup...

Jeffrey Randow (Windows MVP - Networking & Smart Display)
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