Question : Problem: Setting Up Wake on Wan?

Hi,

I am trying to set up Wake on Wan to use with my computer at home.
Unfortunately, I have an extremely rubbish router, and can't seem to get it working...

I have successfully set up Wake On LAN, this works as intended. The problem is getting the packet to the right place over the internet.

When using WOL, I send a magic packet to 255.255.255.255 on port 2304. This works.

When using WOW, I send a magic packet to my external IP on port 2304. However, I cannot seem to get it to route correctly.

My router is a Billion BIPAC 7402G. I have set up static DHCP, so that the computer in question will always be on IP 192.168.1.103. However, forwarding the port (2304) to this IP address does not work. I have also tried forwarding to 192.168.1.255 and 255.255.255.255 in an attempt to find the (undocumented) broadcast IP address. The latter attempt was not allowed. I did not get an error message, it just simply did not set up the forward.

My router has no logging as far as I can tell which is making this problem very awkward. Wireshark shows that the packet is definitely being sent to the router, so the problem is where it goes from there.

I hope someone can help me I would really like to get this going.

Thanks

Answer : Problem: Setting Up Wake on Wan?

WOL (Wake on LAN) magic packets are not routable over the Internet. They are also not typical IP packets so they are not routable. There are a few work
-purchase a WOL router that has WOL "buttons". These are built -in functions programmed to send WOL packets to specific devices from the router's management console which you manage remotely
-if there are multiple PCs or servers at the site to which you are trying to connect. Connect to one using a VPN, LogMeIn, Remote Desktop or similar service and send the majic packet from it to the unit you are trying to wake.
-if using SBS there is an add-on to wake network devices from a management console, but the SBS has to be on
A fellow in Germany has created an add-on that works only with SBS and its RWW to add a wake on LAN 'button' to RWW. This is more secure in that it uses SSL
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://dnn.wol4rww.de/produkte/WakeOnLANfürRemoteWebArbeitsplatzRWW/tabid/654/language/de-DE/Default.aspx
http://sbs.seandaniel.com/2007/03/interesting-in-conserving-little-power.html
-use a 3rd party tool. This tool claims to be able to send magic packets over the Internet, using port forwarding. I haven't tried it:
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/woli.aspx
However read the section entitled "Wake on Lan over the Internet (or why is it such a pain in the ****)" on the following page:
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/what-is-wake-on-lan.aspx