Netgear Firewall + WOL = cool

I set up my Netgear FM114P Wireless Cable Firewall/Print Server to allow me to boot and remote control my desktop from work! I have a D-Link WOL NIC on my PC.

It took me a while to figure out how to do the wake-on-LAN stuff, so if anyone wants help figuring out how to do this, let me know and I'll break it down for ya!

-DOOM

No, but I had to tell the firewall to allow incoming UDP packets on a specific port. That way, when I send the wake up packet from work, I issue it to that port and the firewall forward-broadcasts the packet to my entire network at home.

I had to write a utility to send the magic packet, because I couldn't find one that worked well. Basically, it takes the IP address of my router (e.g. 55.55.55.55), a port number (e.g. 9), and the MAC address of my desktop's NIC. It builds a magic wake up packet using the supplied MAC address and sends it over UDP to 55.55.55.55:9.

The firewall receives the UDP packet on port 9, and broadcasts it to 192.168.0.0 (entire subnet). My desktop's NIC recognizes the magic message with the matching MAC address and powers on the system.

Do you have a WOL card? Let me know if you need help configuring things...

-DOOM