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    Hello All,

    Has anyone out there been able to use WOL that is at remote location (work) to wake up server connected thru Hamachi. I have tried Wake on lan GUI, WOL Magic Packet Sender, dslreports.com/wakup and auto exit client all with no luck. I used the ip address for home the mac address for lan card on server even tried the ip address and mac address hamachi gives you on the server.

    Everything work great if I am at home and wake up server thru autoexit client. I already looked at hamachi forum, emailed auto exit gentleman, googled it so that is why I am trying here for help. Maybe it won't work just need your thoughts.

    MIKE
    Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:44 PM

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    xxx.yyy.zzz.255 is a special "broadcast" IP address which goes to every piece of equipment connected to the local subnet. From a business, or a public Internet access point (library, Starbucks, etc.) you may be unable to send WOL packets to your home network because they may block that traffic. Also, many consumer routers will not forward a broadcast packet from outside the premises (there are ways to use them for hacking and denial of services attacks), so you may not be able to wake your server from outside your home network, period.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:49 PM
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    Mike,

    Have you checked that your router will pass a WOL or Magic Packet, as most consumer grade ones won't have the port forwarded. There is a good explanation here, which might help.

    Colin
    If anyone answers your query successfully, please mark it as 'Helpful', to guide other users.
    Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:00 PM
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    Well I just found out I couldn't remote WOL to any computer over the internet. I checked my linksys router have ports 7-9 forwarded to the server ip address. Why I thought it would work is when on WHS console I can use all of the functions of AutoExit (wol,sleep, shutdown, etc.)

    I tried to setup as per dslreports article as follows (If you are using the router's default settings with a program that sends the "magic packet" to port 9, basically just forward all UDP traffic on port 9 to 192.168.1.255. If there is an option for external and internal ports, the same port number should be used for both external and internal.)
    But my router will not let me put in the .255 on address?? says it out of range.

    Now I am totally confused about why I cannot wol to any computer, has to be something stupid I guess. Any more ideas.
    Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:44 PM
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    xxx.yyy.zzz.255 is a special "broadcast" IP address which goes to every piece of equipment connected to the local subnet. From a business, or a public Internet access point (library, Starbucks, etc.) you may be unable to send WOL packets to your home network because they may block that traffic. Also, many consumer routers will not forward a broadcast packet from outside the premises (there are ways to use them for hacking and denial of services attacks), so you may not be able to wake your server from outside your home network, period.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:49 PM
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