Timeline for Turn on my Ubuntu server remotely?
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| Apr 11, 2017 at 20:11 | comment | added | mckenzm | I really meant browsing to the webserver on a media player. Many of these have a form for sending WoL packets to custom MAC addresses so they can wake up the fileserver. Tedious but does the job. Thx for upvote. | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 4:48 | comment | added | CyberFonic | If you read the specs, any UDP or TCP packet could be used as long as it has the critical WoL payload, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN. So if your router can be configured to port-forward to a specific MAC then it should (in theory) work. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 6:28 | history | edited | mckenzm | CC BY-SA 3.0 | ended answer. |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 5:35 | comment | added | mckenzm | You are not port forwarding the WOL packets, you are port forwarding to the server on the device that will send the WOL packets. You need that device to be always on. | |
| Apr 4, 2017 at 9:33 | comment | added | Chris Davies | @MichaelKjörling that's what I'd thought, but the first part of this answer threw me. | |
| Apr 4, 2017 at 9:25 | comment | added | user | @roaima No, because WOL frames are not TCP or UDP so have no concept of ports. | |
| Apr 4, 2017 at 8:46 | comment | added | Chris Davies | Can you port-forward WOL packets? | |
| Apr 4, 2017 at 8:16 | history | answered | mckenzm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |