Re: Wake On LAN from the Internet

[Austin Murkland <amurkland () merydion com>]

Considering the Wakeup frame contains only 12 F's, and then your mac 
addresses repeated 16x, i doubt there's room for it...  I'm not sure how 
much skill you have, but if you could reprogram the chipset to accept a 
different frame as the "magic packet" (i.e. FFFFFFFFFFFFMACx16), that 
could be a kind of password, so that only the packet that you know how 
to create can wakeup your machine.  I *think* it travels over port 9 so 
you'd have to open that up on your router.  if changing the magic 
sequence isn't feasible, you could enable remote access to your router 
(via https or ssh), i don't recommend this method by the way, and just 
turn on/off the forwarding for port 9 and use the regular magic packet 
when you want to wake up your computer.  your router should have 
username/password authentication and support either https or ssh which 
would give you the login type authentication you were looking for as 
well as control the exposure of rogue WoL packets to your system (i've 
never seen any myself)...

HTH
-Austin Murkland

Emmanuel Goldstein wrote:
> Hi guys, How's it going?
>
>   As I have set ssh access to my computer, now I'd like to be able to
> wake it up remotely in case its switched off.  Do you know if it is
> possible to "Wake On LAN" my computer from the Internet.  I have 24/7
> DSL Connection and a D-Link 504T router.  Can I set a password so Im
> the only one that is able to switch it on? How can i do all this?
>
>   Thanks a lot.
>
> --
> Emmanuel Goldstein.
> Room 101, Ministry of Truth.
> W2, London. Oceania.
>
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