Routers that Support: Remote Access & Magic Packet sending from Config Page.

[chaosd]

Hi there Everyone,

Can anyone, advise me on which Routers support the Following Features:

• Remote Access Via Internet to Router Config Page.
  
• Ability to Trigger [Wake on Lan] Magic Packet from Router Config Page, to a Local PC connected by Ethernet Cable.

I have heard that the Draytec Vigor Series of Routers can do this! Does anyone have any Experience in this?


Any Information most Apreciated.

Thanks

Aaron.

 

[Jeroen1000]

Yep, they do support this. Also all DDWRT/OPENWRT (and many other open source firmwares) support this. So it is not really needed to buy a fairly expensive Draytek for this.

Note that there are ways to get WOL-packets to your PC's over the internet. I have successfully configured this in a few occassions even when the router did not support static ARP. For security, WOL can also be configured with a special pattern for the wake up (like a password). The client computer would have to know this special pattern and will not respond to regular WOL packets (which are a repitition of its MAC-address).

If you have any specific question, I'm more than welcome to try and answer it.

 

[Ozgur Ozdemir]

Wake on WAN question

Hi,

You have said you have been successful even to make Wake on WAN work on a router which doesn't support static ARP table.

How did you manage it? I have a Robotics Model 9108a which doesn't support ARP.

I will appreciate if you could help me how to setup the parameters. I have succeeded to wake my PC from the LAN, but not from the WAN....

Thanks,
Ozgur