Router with magic packet sending?

Mercutio

Mercutio

Mercutio

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Does this exist? It would probably be a small feature buried somewhere so it's quite hard to find one with it mentioned in a review.

After a router that would have an option for sending magic packet on a web interface. I can do it with a raspberry PI sat behind the router but it would be nice to have to cut even that minor expense out if possible :)
 
The Asus DSL-N55U can do it. After weeks of me badgering them to add it to their firmware :p

They may well have added it to other routers.

What kind of connection do you have?


My old Billion 7800N could do it too.
 
I've moved to a virgin connection at the moment. I would guess the Asus can be told to run in router only mode? If not the billion would do, I'm after something with slightly more solid wireless (does seem to be the weak point for the virgin supplied router) so I'll see which of those is better :)

Does the remembering of ARP start becoming something to take note of once it's the router doing the work? Can never quite work out if that only relates to getting the magic packet to jump across NAT to a target machine (whereas you'd be using the routers internal interface so NAT's done for you).
 
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