I had WOL working great. I have DSL from verizon with a westell modem/router.  I 
opened the right ports on the westell. I went to http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/woli.aspx
 and could send myself a magic packet and use putty to log in.

Now, I added a wireless router to the jumble, between the DSL router and the wireless 
router:belkin F5D7231-4P.  I turned the westell into a bridge, set the belkin to 
do dhcp and am forwarding the correct ports to my computer which is hooked directly 
to the switch with cat5e.  If I leave my computer on, I can still log in using putty 
(ssh client).

I have run out of things to try to get the WOL part to work.  Is anyone able to help, 
please?

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The Belkins seem to be a little fussy on what they pass through, even when ports 
are opened or forwarded.  Try to DMZ the machine for a test to see if the packet 
gets passed through.  There are other settings in some of them that may help but 
not all Belkins have the same capabilities..  Good luck getting useful info from 
Belkin as that's who should have the best answer..







On Friday, November 3, 2006 at 11:51 pm, brianinmaine wrote:

>I had WOL working great. I have DSL from verizon with a westell modem/router.  I 

>opened the right ports on the westell. I went to http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/woli.aspx

> and could send myself a magic packet and use putty to log in.

>

>Now, I added a wireless router to the jumble, between the DSL router and the wireless 

>router:belkin F5D7231-4P.  I turned the westell into a bridge, set the belkin to 

>do dhcp and am forwarding the correct ports to my computer which is hooked directly 

>to the switch with cat5e.  If I leave my computer on, I can still log in using putty 

>(ssh client).

>

>I have run out of things to try to get the WOL part to work.  Is anyone able to 
help, 

>please? 

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I found it works! send a broadcast UDP port through the router like 192.168.2.255 (the 255 being the broadcast). Works perfect! Firewall is on, only two ports open - SSH (tcp) and WOL (udp). Secure VNC, tunneling, anything! By the way, Belkin was worthless, they wanted to know if remote access was on. Why? I cant do router remote access because they only make the miniserver on port 80 and verizon blocks that. If I need to now, I can VNC my desktop and make changes "locally". Hoorah! Thanks for the help, though!


On Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 7:41 am, C K wrote:
>The Belkins seem to be a little fussy on what they pass through, even when ports
>are opened or forwarded. Try to DMZ the machine for a test to see if the packet
>gets passed through. There are other settings in some of them that may help but
>not all Belkins have the same capabilities.. Good luck getting useful info from
>Belkin as that's who should have the best answer..
>
>
>

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LOL.. They were clueless too when I had some questions not covered in their documentation.. 
 I figured out my own problem (different than yours)..  Your setup should work for 
WOL.  I'll have to remember that.  I have been able to VNC through though without 
a problem, haven't tried WOL yet.  The Belkins are decent but have some issues and 
I had to get 3 before I got one that worked right and wouldn't lock up..  The third 
one they sent me for free and I didn't have to return the defective one(s)..  (the 
new draft N, don't buy it yet, they have a way to go IMO, for those considering them)

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If you want to try WOL, you only need a few things - 1. configure BIOS to Wake on Lan 2. configure Power management tab of your Nic cards properties. 3. open a router UDP port and broadcast to x.x.x.255 4. send a magic packet from http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/woli.aspx (you need your IP and MAC add for the card you want to wake up) Have fun! I think its awesome to be able to wake my computer and vnc in from almost any internet computer. My next step is a java ssh terminal window called mindterm. This should allow me to eliminate the need for the putty ssh client. I am behind an http proxy, so I need to tunnel my vnc connection.


On Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 7:00 am, C K wrote:
>LOL.. They were clueless too when I had some questions not covered in their documentation..
> I figured out my own problem (different than yours).. Your setup should work for
>WOL. I'll have to remember that. I have been able to VNC through though without
>a problem, haven't tried WOL yet. The Belkins are decent but have some issues and
>I had to get 3 before I got one that worked right and wouldn't lock up.. The third
>one they sent me for free and I didn't have to return the defective one(s).. (the
>new draft N, don't buy it yet, they have a way to go IMO, for those considering them)
>

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