magic packet (wake-on-lan) through VPN?

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Hi!

I have a Netgear FVS318 firewall/router which serves as VPN endpoint
to my home LAN. On my laptop I use the Netgear ProSafe VPN Client
(which actually seems to be a SafeNet SoftRemote 10.1.1 (Build 10)) to
connect from a remote place to my home LAN.

Furthermore on my home LAN I have a Computer which can be turned on
using wake-on-lan by sending a "magic packet" to the home LAN
broadcast address 192.168.0.255. This works fine if I connect the
laptop directly to my home LAN.

Now I tried to use the wake-on-lan feature when my laptop was
connected via the VPN tunnel. But this didn't work. Is this possible
at all? If yes, what do I need to do to make it work?

BTW: I read some posts that proposed to enable port-forwarding on the
firewall which forwards all packets arriving at a certain port to the
home LAN broadcast address. But this is clearly not what I want. I do
not want allow anybody to start my computer (at least if they know my
computers MAC address). It should work only through VPN.

How can I do that?

Thanks
Andreas