pippin wrote: > There are two possibilities: > > 1. your router supports WOL, then it has a port that you send the packet > to (usually 9) and that's what you enter in iPeng. > > 2. your router does NOT support WOL, then you might still be able to use > it. You'd have to open port 3483 also for UDP (not only for TCP as you > do for iPeng's playback; you probably did already do that if you want to > connect a Squeezebox remotely) and leave iPeng's default configuration > as it is. Then iPeng will use port 3483 for the WOL packet and your > router will send it to your server. > This, however, depends on whether your server/computer also can use > directly addressed WOL packets (usually they get broadcast, which is > what the router feature would do) and also your switches and your router > will have to remember the IP routes within your network. The problem is > that when your computer is off, it technically doesn't have an address > so the rest of your infrastructure has to remember how to send messages > to it. > WOL packets are usually broadcast and send to every device on your > network and even in standby the network card will listen for the "magic" > WOL packets and wake up the computer. > > I obviously can't tell you how your router's configuration works, I only > have my own router which does not support WOL.
Thank you. So as I understand it: Stick 9 in the port on iPeng and try waking up server when I'm on foreign wifi/3G. Failing that try option 2 as I already have these ports open. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 05mattjax's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39786 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
