WOL over Internet / WOW

[Ozymandias]

I have a WHS acting as a VPN behind a DG834GT. The WHS is set to sleep using LightsOut. I'm looking to wake it from the Internet when away from home and then VPN in.

Current I have enabled remote admin of the DG834GT with a strong password, allowing me to log into the router and use the WOL facility in the dgTeam firmware to wake up the WHS, log out of the router and VPN into the WHS. However I'm a bit worried over exposing the remote admin feature to the INternet.

As the DG834GT doesn't support WOL over Internet / WOW I'm thinking of maybe a new router that does. However issues seem to existing in having the WOW feature exposed on a router as well.

Any thougts on the best solution? - other than leaving the WHS up all the time

 

[Ozymandias]

I think the trick on the Linksys is to set up a static arp linking mac to ip and use port forwarding.

On the Netgear there seems to be no way of setting up a static arc and so after 5 minutes of the target machine being turned off the arp cache is cleared and so no link exists between the ip of the port foward and the mac of the machine. Beyond this Netgear seems to actively block wow packets across the wan/lan interface.

The correct way is to set up a broadcast of the wow i.e. xxx.xxx.xxx.255 but my Netgear does not allow this.