Re: Wake On Lan over the Internet

[ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani)]

In article <1140694101.446402.187230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, lucia.grassi@xxxxxxxx (Lucia) writes:
| Dear Dan,
|
| following your suggestion I setted up a fixed IP linked to the MAC
| address in the advanced version of the PC database screen but
| unfortunately, with this setting, WOL over Internet does not work at
| all.

You probably want to figure out why this happens.  Unfortunately, with the
limited documentation you may need a sniffer to see what's going on.

| It does work using DHCP and inputting 255.255.255.255 as Subnet Mask in
| the Depicus tool
| (http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx).

I'm not sure what this is supposed to accomplish.

| Unfortunately it works only if magic packet is received by the router
| during a limited period of time after PC switch off.

I would not expect a change in the subnet mask to affect WOL (unless it
broke connectivity completely).

You could still try setting the target of the port forwarding rule
to the broadcast address (either 255.255.255.255 or a suitable directed
subnet broadcast address).

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@danlan.*com