Wake on Lan

[agent_paul]

Hi guys,

my server's hardware is specifically setup so that it would use minimal power but have decent performance.

one thing i need to be more "green" is Wake on Lan. but for some reason i cant seem to make it work over the net (although it works fine over the internal network).

so my question is, does anyone use WoL over the net? if so how???

thanks!

 

[agent_paul]

Hi sparkey, thanks for the advice. yep by net i meant internet. logging onto another machine to wake my old one was my previous solution to this problem. but seeing as im getting rid of both of them that wont work anymore.

i havent much experience with VPN's so ill have a look at those. i think my router supports it so i should be fine.

thanks!

 

[agent_paul]

ok, well i've spent some time reading the specs of my router and it supports vpn pass through or something like that. which as i understand it, is something i dont really want.

i havent spent much time reading up vpn's but as i understand it, its something like a server daemon that allows you to connect and act like your on the private network. sounds all too much work to just wake up a machine

 

[agent_paul]

i've got a belkin n1 vision, ive noticed a lot of people on forums etc having issues with VPN's on it....

i havent setup my router to open a UDP port to .255 but instead was pointing that port to my machine, so thats gotta change.

when i have a chance, ill give it a go. just dont want to risk changing router settings when i only have remote access.

 

[agent_paul]

Hi sparkey,

i gave it a go but got stuck with changing the subnet mask address. the broadcast address (what it the terminal says when i type ifconfig) is 192.168.2.255 but logging onto my router and going in to change the subnet mask only allows me to change the last numbers (i.e. 255.xxx.xxx.xxx x's can only be changed).

so should i go about changing the broadcast address too so that they match to somthing like 255.xxx.xxx.254?