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lauph

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Jun 29, 2007
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30 mins from Cupertino
Ok, I have found out that Wake on Wireless works through my Buffalo router running Tomato firmware. I can trigger it using the Wake on Lan page on the router config page.

Thing now is, it is unpractical to have my mac as a server, and each time i want to use it outside home i have to go to the config page and wake it up, and then use the server.

So, is there any way for the router to send the magic packet to my mac on getting a http, vnc, ssh request from the outside world?



Thoughts:
Seems like a basic WoL thing, since the router seems to handle the Mac as though it is connected by wire, so it shouldn't be the "wireless"'s issue. Do routers normally send magic packets to port forward targets when the port receives something incoming?
 
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