Wake On Lan with R7000

the_xlr8r wrote:

just got my R7000 working with WOL over internet by uninstalling the "Netgear Firewall Driver" from my network adapter. go into properties of your adapter, you should see Netgear firewall driver, select it and uninstall. My WOL hadnt worked for months (not on my prev WNDR4500 either), and only just got mine to work by doing this. hope it works for you. ps. wish i had tried this before shelling out £160 on the R7000!! duh!

Hi there.

I just like to know how you do it on R7000. What do you mean by Netgear firewall driver? which adapter are you referring to? Will it work on any adapter?

This is a bit of an old thread, but my Wake-over-Wan/Wake-on-LAN issue precisely has to do with what was mentioned earlier: the need for a static ARP cache entry.

Does the R7000 support static ARP?

- Dave

I haven't confirmed the following, but I believe setting up an Address Reservation under Advanced > Setup > LAN Setup may double as a static ARP in addition to a static DHCP reservation.

Thanks for the quick reply. I actually had a reserved DHCP address for my WoL destination, but the ARP cache entry times out anyway.

However, I did find a solution:

1. Run the new TelnetEnable (see http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/telnet.console)
2. Telnet to router and type: # arp -i br0 -s x.x.x.x mm:mm:mm:mm:mm:mm where x.x.x.x is the WoL destination IP address (not .255) and mm... is the WoL destination's MAC address

Now I have PERM entry, confirmed via the 'arp' shell command, for the WoL target.

- Dave

Great. Thanks for posting the solution.

ViperGeek, Hi, I just got the r7000 last week and have been testing it out. WOL is important to me and I know I have to set up a static arp entry to make it work. I've run into a problem though. Even after running the 'new' telnetenable successfully I still can't access the router using telnet. I get an error saying "cannot open connection to host on port 23, connect failed when I try to telnet in. The r7000 is on firmware v1.0.4.18_1.1.52.

Hello.

I'm running V1.0.4.30_1.1.67 and just tried it again after a fresh reboot (which resets the telnet listener). Worked again:

C:\>telnet 192.168.0.1
BusyBox v1.7.2 (2015-05-26 08:38:17 CST) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

#

Here's the MD5 of the telnetEnable.exe I'm using:

C:\>md5 telnetEnable.exe
MD5(telnetEnable.exe)= 90186d9b6dfe7f414af099f7663e53e4

I'm also directly adjacent to the Ethernet and used the MAC address of the Ethernet port of the R7000, as reported by 'arp -a'.

- Dave

ViperGeek wrote:
Here's the MD5 of the telnetEnable.exe I'm using: C:\>md5 telnetEnable.exe MD5(telnetEnable.exe)= 90186d9b6dfe7f414af099f7663e53e4 I'm also directly adjacent to the Ethernet and used the MAC address of the Ethernet port of the R7000, as reported by 'arp -a'.

I'm not sure if this was obvious from the openwrt.org post, but the new syntax for new telnetEnable is:

C:\>telnetEnable 192.168.0.1 <MAC without colons or spaces> admin <admin password>

The old Gearguy/Geardog stuff is long gone (thankfully).

- Dave

Thanks. Redid everything from the start and got it to work. Don't know what happened the first 10x I tried it.

Anyone able to telnetEnable on R7000 with lastest firmware?
Post above is recent, I am using latest telnetEnable.exe x.x.x.x mac
Firmware Version V1.0.4.30_1.1.67, but always getting

send failed: 10057

Tried all kinds of variations, mac with or with '-', ip without mac, old Gearguy ... no luck. mac ip verified with arp -a any suggestions?

My goal was to setup perm arp, to enable Wake over internet for various devices from the solution here http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=90065&page=3

Any ideas on acomplishing this task in the GUI, or how to get telnet enabled on recent R7000 firmware?

Trying to perform this command:

# arp -i br0 -s x.x.x.x mm:mm:mm:mm:mm:mm
where x.x.x.x is the WoL destination IP address (not .255) and mm... is
the WoL destination's MAC address