Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Wake-On-LAN tip

So I've never actually gotten wake-on-LAN feature to actually work on my Synology DS409 NAS, until last night. Essentially, what needs to be done is the following:

  • Change your router's subnet mask to 255.255.255.128
  • In your router's port forwarding (also called virtual server) section, make sure you have the forwarding IP set to XXX.XXX.XXX.127, regardless of what the IP of the device you want to wake is (mine is 192.168.0.112)
  • Use UDP port 9
This should forward the magic packet correctly. This worked with my DIR655 router and should work for others.