Wake On Lan Troubleshooting

[isaiahgoveait]

Hi guys,
At this point here is my current situation, I use WOL (Wake On Lan) to remote into my DESKTOP computer when I am away from home. The way it is currently setup is that I have 2 power line adapters one in a room that has my Arris TG1682 router/modem; and the other power line adapter is in my room connecting to my P9X79 Mobo Ethernet adapter.

So far I have been trying to wake my DESKTOP computer up from a WAN. When I test it at home I connect my LAPTOP up to my 4G LTE carrier and utilize my (WOL/WOW software) to try to wake it up. My configuration for this software is to setup a profile that contains my DESKTOP's MAC/ Gateways DDNS domain name that I configured on the modem.

I also port forwarded the UDP ports needed to wake up the computer.

I updated my Ethernet drivers as well.

And lastly I used Wireshark to packet sniff for any WOL packets over LAN and WAN. However here is the catch.l, using LAN the DESKTOP wakes up. On WAN it doesnt show any signs of packets.

(I have to check again but i think WAN packets for WOL syn Ack packets went through)

Based off that what could be wrong?

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[deanwebb]

https://www.howtogeek.com/192642/how-to-remotely-turn-on-your-pc-over-the-internet/

^ Mentions you would maybe also need dynamic DNS on your home router... do you have that set up? There may also be a setting on the router to explicitly allow/deny WOL traffic, so you may want to check out your home router some more.

[isaiahgoveait]

https://www.howtogeek.com/192642/how-to-remotely-turn-on-your-pc-over-the-internet/

^ Mentions you would maybe also need dynamic DNS on your home router... do you have that set up? There may also be a setting on the router to explicitly allow/deny WOL traffic, so you may want to check out your home router some more.

Yes I am currently using DDNS no-ip.com as a domain name source.  okay I'll check through some more firewall settings and see if they let it go through

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[Otanx]

When you setup the forward on the router you forwarded the traffic to the ".255" address right? What model router are you using. It may not like the idea of forwarding to a directed-broadcast address?

-Otanx

[isaiahgoveait]

When you setup the forward on the router you forwarded the traffic to the ".255" address right? What model router are you using. It may not like the idea of forwarding to a directed-broadcast address?

-Otanx

Arris TG1682 so it should be the 255.255.255.255 address?

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