July 19, 201312 yr Off on my jollies next week and i have recently upgraded the server hardware to enable me to transcode plex streams to our devices whilst overseas. Now the mobo supports s3 sleep and the server will sleep when i press the sleep button, i cant however seem to wake it again. I read the s3 wiki and all seems well up to the point where i check for the "wake on: g" option, i think everything after that pertains to setting up a client to wake the machine. I have a galaxy S4 and have downloaded an app that sends magic packets, not even sure if this is what is needed or not, my unraid server is wired to a router running DD-wrt and i have a dyn account which works, in the app it asks for a mac address for which i have entered my unraid servers mac, then it asks for IP or domain for which i enter my domain name for my external ip, then it asks for port, it seems to be defaulted to port 9 and i have changed it 51111 and forward that port on my router, i also tried the same for port 9 but i cant wake the machine from cold off or even from suspend mode. Essentially what i want to be able to do is sleep the server using its S3 function then wake it when i need it, is this at all possible or am i missing a fundamental factor here ?
July 19, 201312 yr Are you sure you're using the correct MAC address with your magic packet? The first thing I'd do is confirm that WOL works on your local network -- send a packet from another PC and confirm it turns on the server. If that's not working, then you have a configuration issue on the UnRAID box => either WOL isn't enabled in the BIOS, or you're using the wrong MAC address in the packet. (or, of course, it doesn't support WOL -- but that's very unlikely) That will confirm whether or not you have a WOL configuration issue, or a network setup problem where the packet's not "getting to" the UnRAID box. Once you KNOW that UnRAID is waking up okay, you can attack the network addressing issue.
July 19, 201312 yr ...not sure about your current as-is situation... Are you able to wake the server from within your home network with a WOL packet when it is on sleep/S3 (without using your S4 from outside/internet)? WOL only works within the same network, as this is a L2 level packet. It normally would not traverse a router. There are ways to do what you what you want but you need some kind of special setup for this. My solution is different. My router offers two things: - one button in its UI to send a WOL to a host on my network - a working DynDNS and VPN setup. This way I can connect with any device from outside via VPN, open the router UI and issue the packet from there, by means of the router.
July 19, 201312 yr Also, I have also had problems with moblie apps that send the magic packet. I have a tomatoes router that has a page for wake on lan. I just connect to the vpn with my phone, load up the router web page (192.168.x.x) and click on the correct MAC address and boom!
July 19, 201312 yr Author MAC is correct, tried it from local network and it woke from suspend, also..tried it on the phone app whilst connected to wifi for local network and it worked also..just cant get it to work from WAN ...not sure about your current as-is situation... Are you able to wake the server from within your home network with a WOL packet when it is on sleep/S3 (without using your S4 from outside/internet)? WOL only works within the same network, as this is a L2 level packet. It normally would not traverse a router. There are ways to do what you what you want but you need some kind of special setup for this. My solution is different. My router offers two things: - one button in its UI to send a WOL to a host on my network - a working DynDNS and VPN setup. This way I can connect with any device from outside via VPN, open the router UI and issue the packet from there, by means of the router. Also, I have also had problems with moblie apps that send the magic packet. I have a tomatoes router that has a page for wake on lan. I just connect to the vpn with my phone, load up the router web page (192.168.x.x) and click on the correct MAC address and boom! How do i go about setting those solutions up ?...is it complicated and involve other services..i dont really want to leave the server running if i can just turn it on for a couple of hours a day
July 20, 201312 yr The most complicated part was setting up my router to be the VPN server. After that all you have to do is use your home vpn and you can access your router and PC's from anywhere. Have you already setup your router to be a vpn server? If you don't have a home vpn, I might be able to walk you through setting up one. Just let me know what router you have.
July 20, 201312 yr Author My router has dd-wrt on it and has a very complicated looking vpn section. Definitely not my field, would really apoeciate your help with that but if the wol would work over wan that would be far simpler. ill pm you my messenger/skype addy.
July 20, 201312 yr Shouldn't need a VPN to do this. Read the details here: http://www.ezlan.net/WOL.html The little utility they suggest will automatically send the correct packet ... but if you're using another app to send the packet (i.e. an app on your tablet/phone) you need to be sure it includes the port number to route it to. In addition, you have to know the internal IP of the system to wake up ... so to be SURE you always know that, set up your UnRAID box with a static IP and either reserve it on the router; or set the IP assignment range on the router so it can't possibly assign a conflicting IP. They do, of course, all have to be in the same subnet. [i.e. if you set the router to assign from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.150, then you could use 192.168.0.88 for your UnRAID box => same subnet, but not an IP the router could assign]
July 20, 201312 yr My router has dd-wrt on it If you can ssh into your router, you can send the WOL packet from the command line of the router.
July 20, 201312 yr Good, so inside your LAN everything is working OK. Another option for doing it remotely is covered by the dd-wrt wiki, for "Remote Wake On LAN via Port Forwarding", here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WOL#Remote_Wake_On_LAN_via_Port_Forwarding
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