Wake on WAN for remote work
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brupala Posted messages 111947 Registration date Status Membre Last intervention -
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Hello everyone, I'm reaching out after a frustrating day trying to turn on my PC remotely using my smartphone.
Here's the current situation: I can turn on my PC and wake it up when my phone is connected via Wi-Fi but not with mobile data.
I'm sending the request to the public IP address of my box (TP-Link 4G router). The box transmits (if I understood correctly) to my PC, which turns on (only via Wi-Fi).
I assume the issue is that my packet is not reaching my box when I send it over the 4G network? I'm not sure if I'm providing enough information for you to assist me.
Thanks in advance.
Here's the current situation: I can turn on my PC and wake it up when my phone is connected via Wi-Fi but not with mobile data.
I'm sending the request to the public IP address of my box (TP-Link 4G router). The box transmits (if I understood correctly) to my PC, which turns on (only via Wi-Fi).
I assume the issue is that my packet is not reaching my box when I send it over the 4G network? I'm not sure if I'm providing enough information for you to assist me.
Thanks in advance.
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Good evening,
We can't help you... because your story is not feasible outside of your local network.
This problem was already addressed here on January 26th. You should have started by searching in there..
https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-37503594-probleme-wake-on-lan#p37503958
I also explain the principle to do it differently there.
We can't help you... because your story is not feasible outside of your local network.
This problem was already addressed here on January 26th. You should have started by searching in there..
https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-37503594-probleme-wake-on-lan#p37503958
I also explain the principle to do it differently there.
Hi
With a 4G router (which model exactly), it's not easy ..
What are you using to send the packet from your smartphone and with which settings in that app? (screenshot please)?
It’s curious that with your box’s public IP address, it works with your router’s wifi, so in WoL
Does your router have an option for WakeOnWan?
If not, have you tried creating a port forwarding to the private IP address of the PC to wake and the port of your app?
With the WolOn app on my phone, I wake up my PC and/or my NAS using WoL and WOW (Freebox)
With a 4G router (which model exactly), it's not easy ..
What are you using to send the packet from your smartphone and with which settings in that app? (screenshot please)?
It’s curious that with your box’s public IP address, it works with your router’s wifi, so in WoL
Does your router have an option for WakeOnWan?
If not, have you tried creating a port forwarding to the private IP address of the PC to wake and the port of your app?
With the WolOn app on my phone, I wake up my PC and/or my NAS using WoL and WOW (Freebox)
I use the "Wake on Lan" app (it really lives up to its name), not much to say about the app's configuration: IP address of the router and MAC address of the PC, it sends on port number 9.
I couldn't find a WoL function in the router settings, but I assigned a fixed IP address to the PC to wake up, and I also configured a virtual server:
I couldn't find a WoL function in the router settings, but I assigned a fixed IP address to the PC to wake up, and I also configured a virtual server:
Hi,
it's already very difficult to do it on a regular box (problem with port forwarding because it will try to do an ARP first but won't be able to succeed, a static ARP is needed, even though the WAL frame is a broadcast on the LAN), so on a 4G box it's almost impossible, at least in ipv4.
The WAN IP is usually a private address behind a CGN (operator NAT) from the mobile operator, which provides a shared public IP.
Only in very expensive professional contracts can you get a public IP address on the 4G box.
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and ... There you go!
it's already very difficult to do it on a regular box (problem with port forwarding because it will try to do an ARP first but won't be able to succeed, a static ARP is needed, even though the WAL frame is a broadcast on the LAN), so on a 4G box it's almost impossible, at least in ipv4.
The WAN IP is usually a private address behind a CGN (operator NAT) from the mobile operator, which provides a shared public IP.
Only in very expensive professional contracts can you get a public IP address on the 4G box.
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and ... There you go!
it doesn't help and no ipv6 well more on the box, I suppose, but even if there were, not sure that the mobile app handles ipv6 in WOW, that would require revising the protocol and creating a multicast group for WOW ... that's a lot.
Similarly, the packet would probably reach your box, but it wouldn't know what to do with it even if it addresses an ipv6 that it knows on its lan, or else it would have to decapsulate the ipv6 to make it a simple ethernet broadcast.
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and ... there you go!
Similarly, the packet would probably reach your box, but it wouldn't know what to do with it even if it addresses an ipv6 that it knows on its lan, or else it would have to decapsulate the ipv6 to make it a simple ethernet broadcast.
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and ... there you go!