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I like to power down stuff when I'm not using it -- save energy and save wear and tear and all that. But I'd also like to be able to remotely startup my office computer, since that's where all the good resources are, for example if I wanted to work at home on my laptop today. I've determined that I can't send wake-on-lan messages to my PC from a remote host on the company VPN, nor does it work from a web server in the server room which is under my care. But I figure if I could setup a tiny Linux host or NAT running something like OpenWRT right there on my desk, I could just ssh into that and send the wake-up call from there. For security reasons, my company has a strong no-wifi-network policy, and I'd like to adhere to that. So... what should I do? 1. Buy an OpenWRT compatible wireless home router, install it with wifi disabled, and a friendly post-it saying "no, this is not a wifi router". 2. Buy some other non-wifi-capable home router and put something like OpenWRT on it -- do these even exist anymore? 3. Don't do anything like this, and just "Phone a friend" to startup my PC. 4. Something else? I guess I'm asking what's the cheapest and simplest path towards my goal. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wake-on-lan-trigger-device-for-my-office-PC----using-OpenWRT--tp24001486s24859p24001486.html Sent from the Boston Linux/UNIX General Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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