Wake On LAN Through the Internet
Wow. Four posts in as many days! This blog is smokin’!
Firstly, I’d like to say that to add to the super l33tness of this post, I used WOL and VNC from halfway around the globe to get local admin access to my router to check all the settings necessary for this to work. l33t.
Wake on LAN is a very useful tool that allows you to send what is known as a ‘magic packet’ over a LOCAL area network to boot up a specific PC, whose MAC address appears in the packet. Googling this will give you any number of applications and tutorials to accomplish this. Getting this to work from outside your LAN however, is a tad trickier.
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