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Wake a Mac form a PC and vice versa
Authored by: maasgarid on Jan 21, '05 12:03:07PM

My iMac G5 is behind a Netgear router at my home. I've forwarded port 9 to the iMac and done everything in this article, but I still cannot get the iMac to wake from sleep remotely. I know this isn't a lot of info to go on, but I'll provide other info if anyone has suggestions. Please help! =)



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Wake a Mac form a PC and vice versa
Authored by: goatbar on Jan 21, '05 12:28:55PM

Have you tried waking the computer while it is actually on and running tcpdump? You should see the wakeup packets come in. Then if you do not see them, you need to work on the router.



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Wake a Mac form a PC and vice versa
Authored by: mrchucho on Jan 21, '05 01:18:26PM

Unless I'm mistaken, WOL only works on a LAN.



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Wake a Mac form a PC and vice versa
Authored by: timhaigh on Jan 21, '05 01:37:18PM
In the thread where this topic started at the apple discussion forums I pointed out that the way to remotely wake a mac from outside your LAN is to ssh into your LAN to an ssh server you leave up 24/7 and then from that server you can issue a CLI command to wake up any sleeping computers on your local network.

Presuming you know how to set up SSH and use the terminal should have no trouble using wake on lan

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Wake a Mac form a PC and vice versa
Authored by: schneb on Jan 21, '05 04:47:44PM

WOL = Wake On LAN
WOMP = Wake On Magic Packet



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Wake a Mac form a PC and vice versa
Authored by: William McCallum on Jan 21, '05 04:02:46PM

Try forwarding port 9 to the broadcast address of your local network. This ends in 255. So if your local network ips start out 10.0.0., then you would forward port 9 to port 9 on 10.0.0.255

This solved the same problem for me once.



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Wake a Mac form a PC and vice versa
Authored by: aardvarko on Jan 26, '05 01:56:58AM

do this, and also make sure you're forwarding UDP



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Wake a Mac from a PC on Port 9
Authored by: MiStch on Jan 23, '05 06:11:05AM

The Wake on LAN tool works very well with my DSL-Modem (Zyxel 650ME). All I had to do is forwarding port 9 to my Mac's IP. It looks like: Forwarding port 9 to port 9 on (internal) IP address 192.168.1.2

Important: Make sure that from where you send your wake on LAN command, the firewall must let the command go through! (TCP-Port 9 must be open).
It did not work with other tools like Magic Packet send as it uses the UDP Port 9 instead of TCP. My DSL Modem does NOT forward any UDP commands. So this does not work.



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