Is there a special config on a router for wake on lan to work?
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Could you capture with a protocol analyzer the actual Wake on LAN packet?
It's always been a mystery to me. But my guess is that it's not a routable
packet.
On the other hand, is it even a packet or it is just an electrical surge or
something?
I suggest you find out more about what the Wake
I think that wake on lan sends out a broadcast with F... in the
destination field.
May be because it a layer 2 broadcast it is not passing the packets.
Can I configure a router to pass layer 2 broadcasts? And if I can is there
a way to
control the broadcast so that only wake on lan packets
It is indeed a packet. And all of the utils I have seen to perform a WOL to
a device use MAC addresses, so routing would not be possible. Now that I
think about it, this would be the only way this would work unless you could
build a tcp/ip stack into the rom of a nic. (otherwise the OS would
Well it seems that WOL is a widely used technology. So there is got to be a
way how
pass those packets through the router.
Any ideas?
Patrick Ramsey wrote:
It is indeed a packet. And all of the utils I have seen to perform a WOL
to
a device use MAC addresses, so routing would not be
There are ways around this... Check this site out:
http://esupport.ca.com/public/sdo_shipit/infodocs/7065.asp
khramov 06/15/01 04:57PM
Well it seems that WOL is a widely used technology. So there is got to be a
way how
pass those packets through the router.
Any ideas?
Patrick Ramsey
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Well it seems that WOL is a widely used technology. So there is got to be a
way how
pass those packets through the router.
Any ideas?
Patrick Ramsey wrote:
It is indeed a packet. And all of the utils I have seen to perform a WOL
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