Wake-on-lan trigger device for my office PC -- using OpenWRT?

Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_clark-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org
Fri Jun 12 12:53:45 EDT 2009


Brendan Kidwell writes:

> 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?

How about one of those new Marvell "wall-wart" Linux boxes?  This
seems like a good application for one.

Regards,

--kevin
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