Wake on LAN over internet

[Alesek]

Hello, is there a way to wake on LAN a pc over the internet without having a public IP or a secondary PC on the network?

[jj9987]

6 minutes ago, Alesek said:

Hello, is there a way to wake on LAN a pc over the internet without having a public IP or a secondary PC on the network?

Connect to your internal network to a VPN. Then connect your remote to the device.

 

And when I say VPN, I mean a proper Virtual Private Network, not route-all-traffic-through-in-order-to-hide-tracks. Meaning these public VPN services will not fit.

[Alesek]

6 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

Connect to your internal network to a VPN. Then connect your remote to the device.

 

And when I say VPN, I mean a proper Virtual Private Network, not route-all-traffic-through-in-order-to-hide-tracks. Meaning these public VPN services will not fit.

don't I need a server to run my own VPN?

[newgeneral10]

1 hour ago, Alesek said:

don't I need a server to run my own VPN?

Some routers can run their own VPN services.

[Mikensan]

You can also use free dynamic DNS solutions like no-ip.com so you don't have to write down / memorize your IP. If you run their agent it will pull your IP address and update automatically.

 

Lot of wireless routers these days offer some sort of VPN service. Also possible your wireless router might be compatible with dd-wrt or tomato, which will give you both WOL abilities and VPN.

 

WOL I believe is a special type of broadcast packet, since it uses a MAC Address instead of an IP. Which will likely get removed by any ISP gateway as soon as you try. So unfortunately there isn't any way to use WOL over WAN.

[Alesek]

15 hours ago, jj9987 said:

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13 hours ago, Mikensan said:

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I am confused, even if I manage to set up VPN through my router, don't I need a public IP or at least some forwarded ports from my ISP to be able to connect to it?

 

[Mikensan]

12 hours ago, Alesek said:

I am confused, even if I manage to set up VPN through my router, don't I need a public IP or at least some forwarded ports from my ISP to be able to connect to it?

 

I'm not sure how you're imagining it. Since I don't really know what you're sending a WOL packet to, lets assume a computer.

If you connect to the VPN, you will be "behind" your firewallr/outer, thus when you send a WOL packet it will turn on your computer.

 

If you want to send a WOL computer from say Work to your computer at Home - it will never work. The WOL packet only has a MAC Address, which is not routable over the internet. You need to get onto the same network as the device you want to send a WOL packet to, and this is usually done by VPN/SSH or somehow remotely connecting.

 

You could do the worst thing possible and expose your router/firewall to the internet, log into the web console, and send the WOL packet.

 

 

Work > VPN > HomeRouter >> WOL Packet > Computer.

[jj9987]

On 6/20/2018 at 10:04 AM, Alesek said:

I am confused, even if I manage to set up VPN through my router, don't I need a public IP or at least some forwarded ports from my ISP to be able to connect to it?

 

You would need to host a VPN in a location that has a public IP (a VPS from DigitalOcean/AWS for example). Then connect your local network to that VPN and advertise your network to the VPN. When you connect remotely to the VPN, then you can access your home network from the outside.

[Alesek]

Thanks for the info!! I am gonna solve it by getting a raspberry pi on the network to send the WOL. It seems like the easiest solution 

[tiandrei]

I had the same issue/question as you and I bought a Mikrotik router.

Using DDNS from my ISP I connect directly to it via Winbox and from the router terminal I send magic packet in my local network.

RANT : of course Microsoft screwed WOL on Win10 but that is that