remote wake up

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:20:28 -0400, "Good Day" <siuolgnuel.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote:

 >What is the remote wake up on my PC setup menu and how to use it.
 >
 >I have a LAN of PCs and can I remote turn one on with this feature after it
 >goes standby?

Yup. If your nic and motherboard support WOL ("wake on lan") then you can
certainly wake up a LAN member from inside the LAN - and from outside as well.

I routinely do both - wake up another LAN member in the house from my main
system in my office at home, mostly to do os updates and
antivirus/firewall/adblocker updates; and I routinely wake up my snoozing main
system from my office at work to transfer files I need at either end.

It's quite cool, saves a few bucks on the electric bill, and is very easy to
implement - as long as the hardware supports it.

I use a freebie command line utility to wake systems up. You can get this and
the instructions on how to use it here:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm" target="_blank">http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm</a>

I just created a set of one line .bat files, one for each system, with the
appropriate command line, then created shortcuts for each .bat file, and
stuffed the shortcuts in a "WOL" folder under the System Tools folder.

Example command line to wake up my wife's deskside machine:
"C:\Program Files\Accessories\wakeup.exe" "00:02:B3:28:40:A5"

To propagate this command through the WAN from home to work the MAC address is
suffixed with the IP address of the remote node. That takes care of the
routing part...

eg: to wake up my wife's system from my system at work:
"C:\Program Files\Accessories\wakeup.exe" "00:02:B3:28:40:A5" /a 197.124.1.19
where that IP address is the WAN address for my router (and the address that
everyone outside my LAN sees as "me").

Piece o' cake, and very handy for waking a sleeping system up from anywhere in
the world...

/daytripper<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->