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Orbi router RBR50v2 WOL through VPN
Hello, I've succesfully setup a VPN on the Orbi. My PC works with WOL inside the network (Windows 10), it wakes up after shutdown no problem. Now I want this to work through a VPN. However, state...
CrimpOn wrote:Synology NAS appears to be able to generate WOL magic packets:
https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-wake-up-windows-machine-via-wol-from-synology-nas
I have a QNAP but there's as well a solution for that:
https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=130500
Somebody made an app which you can launch from the NAS. I've tested it, works fine as expected. This is a good solution for me as I just need to be able to wake my NUC at home when I need it. Also it doesn't have to be a WOL package from the phone. Trigerred from my laptop though the NAS app makes even more sense cause I want to take over my NUC's screen anyways from the laptop.
Thanks for the insight! Once you mentioned server I was directly thinking about a NAS app.
Please confirm whether I understand the issue (or not).
Wake on LAN (WOL) works within the local network.for this Windows 10 computer.
What device is sending the WOL packet to the Windows 10 computer?
Is the computer connected to the LAN with ethernet or WiFi?
OpenVPN host is enabled on the Orbi router and OpenVPN client is installed on the Windows 10 computer.
A smartphone not connected to the Orbi LAN (using LTE data) provides a Hot Spot for the Windows 10 computer.
Once connected to the Hot Spot, the Windows 10 computer opens a VPN connection through the internet to the Orbi.
At that point, the Windows 10 computer goes to sleep.
The goal is to use WOL to cause the Windows 10 computer to wake up at the remote location.
My first impressionis that "going to sleep" will drop the connection between the Windows 10 computer and the Orbi VPN host.
Once the VPN connection drops, no packets will be sent to the computer.
Or.... do I not understand the problem?
p.s. This article appears to confirm that Wake on LAN does not work over WiFi (toward the end of the piece).
CrimpOn wrote:
Or.... do I not understand the problem?
My guess is, "No. I did not understand the problem."
The goal is more likely to be waking up a computer on the local LAN by sending a Magic Packet through the VPN connection to the LAN.
The Wikipedia article about Wake on LAN goes into great detail regarding how difficult this is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#Magic_packet
(which may be where the question about ARP binding comes from)
That other article described a method to do this using port forwarding (no VPN). Once the port is open, people will begin hammering on it which will create lots of broadcast packets. They will never guess that the point is WOL or be able to figure out the MAC address, so I am not certain how much of a security breach that will turn out to be.
It may turn out to be less difficult to set up a server on the LAN (that is always live) which can be told to generate the magic packet to wake up that computer.
Sorry I went off in a crazy direction.
CrimpOn wrote:
CrimpOn wrote:Or.... do I not understand the problem?
My guess is, "No. I did not understand the problem."
The goal is more likely to be waking up a computer on the local LAN by sending a Magic Packet through the VPN connection to the LAN.
The Wikipedia article about Wake on LAN goes into great detail regarding how difficult this is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#Magic_packet
(which may be where the question about ARP binding comes from)
That other article described a method to do this using port forwarding (no VPN). Once the port is open, people will begin hammering on it which will create lots of broadcast packets. They will never guess that the point is WOL or be able to figure out the MAC address, so I am not certain how much of a security breach that will turn out to be.
It may turn out to be less difficult to set up a server on the LAN (that is always live) which can be told to generate the magic packet to wake up that computer.
Sorry I went off in a crazy direction.
I'm not sure if that will even work with the firmware now, forwarding. Then I need to do the ARP part for sure but I can't do that anymore since telnet/ssh won't work. There is no option to turn this on in debug.
A server on the LAN, yeah that could work but I don't want to run a server. Lol. It's my home place. A NAS is running though, now you mentioned server running .. I might look into an app running on the NAS. If that's available.
Synology NAS appears to be able to generate WOL magic packets:
https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-wake-up-windows-machine-via-wol-from-synology-nas
CrimpOn wrote:Please confirm whether I understand the issue (or not).
Wake on LAN (WOL) works within the local network.for this Windows 10 computer.
What device is sending the WOL packet to the Windows 10 computer?
Is the computer connected to the LAN with ethernet or WiFi?
OpenVPN host is enabled on the Orbi router and OpenVPN client is installed on the Windows 10 computer.
A smartphone not connected to the Orbi LAN (using LTE data) provides a Hot Spot for the Windows 10 computer.
Once connected to the Hot Spot, the Windows 10 computer opens a VPN connection through the internet to the Orbi.
At that point, the Windows 10 computer goes to sleep.
The goal is to use WOL to cause the Windows 10 computer to wake up at the remote location.
My first impressionis that "going to sleep" will drop the connection between the Windows 10 computer and the Orbi VPN host.
Once the VPN connection drops, no packets will be sent to the computer.
Or.... do I not understand the problem?
Yeah, sorry for the confusion. The local Windows 10 computer is an Intel NUC connected to the LAN with ethernet, wired. Thus no WiFi involved there. The NUC is the one I want to turn on with WOL.
The other device sending the magic packet is my Android phone. When my phone is connected to WiFi but the same LAN cq local subnet as my NUC it works fine. Magic packet is sent from my phone and NUC wakes up.
What isn't working: phone connected through OpenVPN to the Orbi when it's on LTE. I read somewhere since it's connected to the local LAN when the VPN is up, you can sent a magic packet the same way But it doesn't work.
I don't know where the going to sleep is coming from, you took it from another thread I think. That's not my issue. My NUC shuts down and I've configured Windows 10 in this way it wakes up after shutdown. That works and it's not the issue.
The issue is magic packets not going through the VPN tunnel or something like that.