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Wake On LAN Help
My first post - Can someone help me understand the WOL feature on a RN102 NAS? I just received the NAS and got it setup yesterday. I expected the NAS to go into some low power mode overnight and ...
Generally this trick is to direct the magic packet to a static/reserved IP address instead of broadcasting it. But since the device is asleep or off, it won't respond to ARP requests - so the packet might not be reliably forwarded to the device (I don't think the guide says this though). It depends on the device being in the router's ARP cache.
xeltros wrote: look at wake on wan on google.
found this, I had no time to read it carefully but seems that they guide you through the process, it may be adapted.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/l ... l=&start=2
If you can install a udp proxy on your LAN (somewhere that is always on) you could use that to broadcast, but that is getting complicated and fragile - especially if you want it to work after a power failure.
Anyway, the OS4 add-on works for me, all you need to do is create suitable browser bookmarks for each device. Direct router support through https would be a nice feature.
Having a similar add-on for OS6 would also be nice, especially if you could also send WoL packets on a schedule.
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