Wake on Lan through my router? Anyone done this

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Hi all,

Trying to use wake on lan to wake my pc up remotely so I can vnc onto it.
Wake on lan works fine on my local network (i.e if I use a bit of software to send a "Magic Packet" to 192.168.53.255 my PC wakes up).

However it doesn't work over the internet. Some research has shown there are two ways of doing this;

1) Forward port 9 UDP on my router to 192.168.53.255 so a magic packet sent to my broadband IP will go to the broadcast address of my subnet. Problem is my router insists I enter in a number between 2 and 254, so I can't enter in 255 (SMC baricade adsl router)

2) The other way is to add a arp entry in so even with my PC off, the router knows the mac address of my PC. This way I can just forward the port 9 UDP to my PC. Problem is the router doesn't seem to let me add arp entries either (nowhere in the interface to do this).

ANyone got any other suggestions? The NIC in my PC is the one built into the motherbord of the Nforce 680i SLI motherboards. I have set "Wake up on Magic Packet" to enabled. I suppose I could set it to wake up on any data but then my PC will be waking up all the time which I don't want :p
 
With a cisco router, you forward ANY port to the ip address and then enable IP directed broadcasts on the private interface. Is there any way to do the same on your router?

Basically, the Magic packet is unicast all the way to the router, then the router has to decide how to handle it. Given that routers will generally not pass a broadcast through to another net (probably why the SMC is not letting you configure it), you will struggle unless you can tell it to broadcast the traffic out of the inside.

I would speak to SMC directly and see what they say.
 
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