Which routers work with WakeOnLan? DI-524?

[daven...@yahoo.com]

I am looking for a wireless router that works with WakeOnLan (WOL). I
just got a D-Link network card with this feature, and I can wake my
main desktop from within the lan (ie my laptop), but it doesn't work
from a remote pc over the internet. I've been told that on my router, I
need to forward a port to the 'broadcast address', which is usually
subnet.255 (on my USRobotics router, that would be 192.168.2.255). But
my current router does not let you use that address, USRobotics
confirmed this. So I need to find an 802.11g router that does work with
WOL. A co-worker has a D-Link DI-524 router, he does say he can forward
to his subnet.255 port, but I don't know for sure if WakeOnLan works
with this router. Can anyone confirm? Or name other routers they know
does work with WOL?

Thanks,

Dave
daven...@yahoo.com

[Rico]

Not sure about the Dlink DI-524 (no mention in product documentation that
I've seen), but

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=88

claims they have WOL in their AP.

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

[Jeff Liebermann]

On 16 Mar 2006 21:33:22 -0800, daven...@yahoo.com wrote:

>I am looking for a wireless router that works with WakeOnLan (WOL). I
>just got a D-Link network card with this feature, and I can wake my
>main desktop from within the lan (ie my laptop), but it doesn't work
>from a remote pc over the internet.

No router will pass Magic Packets (WOL) from WAN -> LAN. These
packets are broadcasts (MAC address = all 1's) and will not pass
through the router or firewall. There is also no easy way to direct
such a packet at your router IP as Magic Packet doesn't know anything
about IP addresses. This isn't going to work.

>I've been told that on my router, I
>need to forward a port to the 'broadcast address', which is usually
>subnet.255 (on my USRobotics router, that would be 192.168.2.255).

Close. See:
http://www.ezlan.net/WOL.html
for how it's done.

Argh. The link for the WOL program is busted in the above web page.
This one works:
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx

This should work with ANY router including wireless.

>But
>my current router does not let you use that address, USRobotics
>confirmed this. So I need to find an 802.11g router that does work with
>WOL. A co-worker has a D-Link DI-524 router, he does say he can forward
>to his subnet.255 port, but I don't know for sure if WakeOnLan works
>with this router. Can anyone confirm? Or name other routers they know
>does work with WOL?

I have never been able to make WOL work through a router without some
form of a trick or added program.

What I have been able to do is setup a VPN to a network and run Magic
Packets through the VPN to the remote network. That works fine but
you may need to tweak the router to allow broadcasts to pass. It's
usually a setting on the better routers, but missing on the cheap
ones.

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You might want to try:

http://www.ovislink.com.tw/WL-8000VPN.htm

The unit has wireless, VPN and Wake On LAN capability. The router also
has NetBIOS broadcast which eliminates the need to do name resolution
from a remote machine. Lots of VPN Support (IPsec, PPTP and L2TP).

Thanks,
Paul