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Totti
Aspirant
Feb 20, 2014
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Wake On Lan with R7000

Hi, i get my new R7000 today and have an Asus RT-N66U before. The Asus WOL work fine but i found no way to use WOL with the R7000. With the R7000 i cant use 255.255.255.255 as Subnetmask to use ...
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  • ViperGeek's avatar
    ViperGeek
    Aug 10, 2015

    Hi Riker.

     

    Now that I've confirmed that the removal of my solution was a moderation, I'll try repeating it from memory (I was actually using this thread, bookmarked, to remember how to do it).

     

    1. Download TelnetEnable from here: https://github.com/LuKePicci/NetgearTelnetEnable/blob/master/binaries/windows/telnetenable.exe?raw=true
    2. Open a DoS/Command Prompt on a PC directly connected to the same LAN and type 'telnetenable.exe <router-IP> <router-MAC> admin <admin-password>'
    3. Telnet to the router
    4. 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

    You should then have a static ARP entry in your router.  Set up forwarding of port 9/UDP to your device you want to wake and it should work.

     

    - Dave

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ViperGeek
Apprentice
May 25, 2015

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
  • riker's avatar
    riker
    Aspirant
    Aug 08, 2015
    ViperGeek wrote:
    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:



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


      - Dave

    Could you please post your solution again. It looks it was deleted.

    Thanks

    • ViperGeek's avatar
      ViperGeek
      Apprentice
      Aug 10, 2015

      Mods,

       

      Was my solution removed on purpose, or did a forum update perhaps wipe out my formatted text by mistake?

       

      - Dave

       

      • Babylon5's avatar
        Babylon5
        NETGEAR Employee Retired
        Aug 10, 2015

        ViperGeek, I can see several posts made by you in this thread, and none deleted, so are you referring to a solution within this thread or another thread?

    • ViperGeek's avatar
      ViperGeek
      Apprentice
      Aug 10, 2015

      Hi Riker.

       

      Now that I've confirmed that the removal of my solution was a moderation, I'll try repeating it from memory (I was actually using this thread, bookmarked, to remember how to do it).

       

      1. Download TelnetEnable from here: https://github.com/LuKePicci/NetgearTelnetEnable/blob/master/binaries/windows/telnetenable.exe?raw=true
      2. Open a DoS/Command Prompt on a PC directly connected to the same LAN and type 'telnetenable.exe <router-IP> <router-MAC> admin <admin-password>'
      3. Telnet to the router
      4. 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

      You should then have a static ARP entry in your router.  Set up forwarding of port 9/UDP to your device you want to wake and it should work.

       

      - Dave

      • riker's avatar
        riker
        Aspirant
        Aug 12, 2015

        Hi Dave,

         

        thanks for posting your solution again. It works excellent for me.

        One more matter. Is it safe to keep telnet console open? Because once you open telnet console to router there is no way to disable it till router is rebooted, but when router is rebooting we are loosing all settings.

        Thanks

  • millertime23's avatar
    millertime23
    Aspirant
    Sep 23, 2015

    This solution works perfectly. Thanks for sharing ViperGeek. The only issue is the new ARP PERM entry gets cleared every time the router is rebooted. Then I have to go back and re-do all the entries. This could be a hassle after a power failure. Are you aware of a way to save these settings permanently? I'm running an R7000 on 1.0.4.30_1.1.67 firmware

    • ViperGeek's avatar
      ViperGeek
      Apprentice
      Sep 23, 2015
      millertime23 wrote:

       Are you aware of a way to save these settings permanently? I'm running an R7000 on 1.0.4.30_1.1.67 firmware

      Hi MillerTime.

       

      Unfortunately, I've found no way to have these commands auto-execute on boot.  I messed around with /etc/init.d, but I believe the R7000 uses a volatile filesystem in that everything is recreated based on config at startup.  Nothing written to /etc, for example, will survive a reboot either.

       

      - Dave

      • millertime23's avatar
        millertime23
        Aspirant
        Sep 23, 2015

        I was worried that might be the case. Maybe a workaround would be to write a .bat file that will execute in windows task scheduler