Services

I have several questions regarding monowall's wake on lan (WOL) features that I could not find in the documentation or via Google. If anyone can help with this issue I would greatly appreciate it.

I have one desktop at home connected to a 4 port switch and a PC Engines monowall machine. I have DynamicDNS set up properly; works fine for SSH into the desktop from the Internet when I am at work. When my laptop is plugged into the switch at home, I can confirm that I can send magic packets from the laptop to wake up the desktop.

I would like to be able to wake up the machine when I am at work and then SSH into it. I have tried forwarding a port (9 TCP/UDP) to try to wake up the machine to no avail. I tried using the desktops IP of 192.168.1.10 (even though I know that the desktop has no IP when it's off) in addition to trying 192.168.1.255. with the appropriate MAC address.

Where am I going wrong? Am I supposed to log into my monowall router from the internet and use it's Wak On Lan services? Isn't that risk from a security perspective? From what I have Googled so far, it should be possible to turn on a computer from the internet when it's behind an appropriate firewall without having to access the router from the internet; nothing monowall specific that I can find though.

Thanks in advance,

Nick

I too once tried forwarding port 9 UDP to 192.168.1.255 and had the same experience: no wakey. I got this idea from a howto on the Linksys site, but apparently monowall is not forwarding these magic packets in a way that the target machine recognises them.  IIRC, I also tried sending TCP packets (TCP forwarding enabled), but still no dice.

db

m0n0wall has a function 'wake on lan' under service for that. You need to access the m0n0wall webgui from the internet (add a WAN rule to allow this for https), then use the GUI function 'Services: Wake on LAN'. Works for me.

m0n0wall has a function 'wake on lan' under service for that. You need to access the m0n0wall webgui from the internet (add a WAN rule to allow this for https), then use the GUI function 'Services: Wake on LAN'. Works for me.

I was hoping to get Wake-On-Lan without resorting to logging into the monowall router. 

Any other suggestions? Or is this juts not possible with monowall?

well, I use browser to turn ON/OFF remote PC and it's router independent:
    https://ool-43537bf6.dyn.optonline.net/Power%20Web%20Button.htm