What's new

WOL issue

  • SNBForums Code of Conduct

    SNBForums is a community for everyone, no matter what their level of experience.

    Please be tolerant and patient of others, especially newcomers. We are all here to share and learn!

    The rules are simple: Be patient, be nice, be helpful or be gone!

MrBackslash

New Around Here
Hello, i have problems using WOL on my RT-N66U (3.0.0.4.246.20). WOL is only working for some hours but then suddenly stopps working (it is not possible to wake up a pc anymore). After rebooting the router WOL is working again. Any suggestions?
 
This is usually caused by a power management setting on your PC. Check both in your BIOS and the network interface settings in Windows' Device Manager.

Are you connecting that PC directly to the router, or to a switch? If it's a switch, it could also be caused by a power management feature of the switch that turns off the port after a while if there's no activity.
 
My PC and also the NAS are directly connected to the router. With a different router everything is working fine. Both have static IP's. Is it possible that the N66U is loosing this IP's?
 
My PC and also the NAS are directly connected to the router. With a different router everything is working fine. Both have static IP's. Is it possible that the N66U is loosing this IP's?

The target's IP is irrelevant in a WOL usage scenario. You want to send the packet to the broadcast address, not the device's IP, because there is no way to know what IP a given device was using before going to sleep - that IP might very well have been reallocated since it was last seen.

Some devices are more picky however as to the type of packets they will handle. Some devices work better with the wol tool (which I use on the WOL page), others with the ether-wake tool (which Asus uses on the AiCloud page).

Try going to the Tools -> Run Cmd page and manually using ether-wake to see if it works better for you:

/usr/bin/ether-wake -i br0 -b xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;

(replacing the xx section with the target MAC)
 
I've logged my WOL requests:

First try WOL over web (not working):
Nov 20 19:39:50 kernel: ACCEPT <4>ACCEPT IN=eth0 OUT=br0 <1>SRC=2.206.0.63 DST=192.168.1.100 <1>LEN=130 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=47 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP <1>SPT=39930 DPT=9 LEN=110
Nov 20 19:39:59 kernel: ACCEPT <4>ACCEPT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:22:90:c7:22:d9:08:00 <1>SRC=10.158.128.1 DST=255.255.255.255 <1>LEN=309 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=59788 PROTO=UDP <1>SPT=67 DPT=68 LEN=289


Second over Router WOL Page (working):
Nov 20 19:45:43 kernel: ACCEPT <4>ACCEPT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:22:90:c7:22:d9:08:00 <1>SRC=10.158.128.1 DST=255.255.255.255 <1>LEN=309 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=26795 PROTO=UDP <1>SPT=67 DPT=68 LEN=289
Nov 20 19:45:45 dnsmasq-dhcp[491]: DHCPDISCOVER(br0) 00:11:32:16:70:3f
Nov 20 19:45:45 dnsmasq-dhcp[491]: DHCPOFFER(br0) 192.168.1.100 00:11:32:16:70:3f
Nov 20 19:45:45 dnsmasq-dhcp[491]: DHCPDISCOVER(br0) 00:11:32:16:70:3f
Nov 20 19:45:45 dnsmasq-dhcp[491]: DHCPOFFER(br0) 192.168.1.100 00:11:32:16:70:3f
Nov 20 19:45:45 dnsmasq-dhcp[491]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.1.100 00:11:32:16:70:3f
Nov 20 19:45:45 dnsmasq-dhcp[491]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.1.100 00:11:32:16:70:3f DiskStation


Any suggestions whats going wrong?
 

Similar threads

Sign Up For SNBForums Daily Digest

Get an update of what's new every day delivered to your mailbox. Sign up here!
Top