OS X Wake-On-LAN over Internet through Linksys Router!
Steven Kan
I have a G4/450DP running 10.1.3, sitting behind a Linksys BEFSR41, and
I can wake it from sleep over the Internet!
Here's what I did:
1) Downloaded AMD's Magic Packet Utility for Windows:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/magic_pkt.exe
2) Set OS X's Energy Saver to Wake for Network Administrative Access
(Wake-On-LAN aka WOL)
3) Used Apple System Profiler to get my Mac's MAC address
4) Ran Magic Packet from within my LAN to confirm that it works (it
does)
5) Configured my Linksys router to forward magic packets (port-forward
UDP 2304 to the broadcast address, which is x.x.x.255)
6) Called my brother to have him send a magic packet to my cable
modem/router.
That's it!
Things to watch out for:
a) The Linksys router must have reasonably current firmware. Older
versions may not allow port-forwarding to the broadcast address, and
won't allow you to enter .255.
b) The Magic Packet utility only runs in Windows or DOS. Source code is
available in the DOS version:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/mpwake.zip
so I supppose a programmer (which I'm not) could port it to Mac OS or OS
X.
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Ben Hines
wrote:
>
> b) The Magic Packet utility only runs in Windows or DOS. Source code is
> available in the DOS version:
>
> http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/mpwake.zip
>
> so I supppose a programmer (which I'm not) could port it to Mac OS or OS
> X.
Or one could just use Wake550 in OSX:
http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13645&db=mac
Or a perl script:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020220095929695
Or a web site:
http://www.dslreports.com/wakeup
Seriously, no need to write any more apps to do this. :)
-B
Arthur Ogus
<bRIMUVEen.hines-2E...@news.bellatlantic.net>, Ben
Hines <bRIMUVE...@verizon.net> wrote:
I have not been able to get this to work over the internet yet.
It may be a routing issue on the target computer (at my work).
Has anyone else?
Steven Kan
Thanks! These are exactly what I've been looking for, but I couldn't
find them!
Steven Kan
>
> Ben Hines wrote:
> >
> > In article <3C9D141E...@kan.org>, Steven Kan <ste...@kan.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > b) The Magic Packet utility only runs in Windows or DOS. Source code is
> > > available in the DOS version:
> > >
> > > http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/mpwake.zip
> > >
> > > so I supppose a programmer (which I'm not) could port it to Mac OS or OS
> > > X.
> >
> > Or one could just use Wake550 in OSX:
> > http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13645&db=mac
> >
> > Or a perl script:
> > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020220095929695
> >
> > Or a web site:
> > http://www.dslreports.com/wakeup
>
> Thanks! These are exactly what I've been looking for, but I couldn't
> find them!
Except that the dslreports website thingy doesn't work for me. I plug in
my numbers, e.g.
204.131.243.46
and
003165b92ce0
(Obviously these are not my real numbers!) and I click Wake! Nothing
happens back at my sleeping Mac. If I send those exact same values from
within my LAN to my router (which is port forwarded back to the
broadcast address), then it wakes up.
Has anyone else used the dslreports website for this?