Wake on lan/sleep on lan

tjsniper

Ok, Does anybody know the ports used for wake on LAN?

I'm able to bring my PC out of sleep mode using my PSP with wake on LAN,
I used to use the internet browser in the PSP to connect to a port on my pc and have a program on my PC put the PC into sleep.
But now I want it to sleep on a magic packet when windows is running and wake on magic packet when it is not?!

also does anybody know a program that can sleep on a magic packet?

thanks guys

tjsniper

any budy hazard a guess?

rogue-entity

To get your PC to wake up using WoL, its Network Card needs to support it. If the network card is integrated into the PC motherboard, then check the BIOS settings for WoL, it is probably disabled. If your network card is a seperate PCI card added to the PC, if it supports WoL, it will have a WoL connector on it, if the motherboard supports WoL it will have a corresponding connector. Get a WoL cable and connect the network card to the board if this is the case. The reason for the connector is to supply power to the NIC when the PC is off.

Now, assuming you have the above all sorted, you use a programme to send the Magic Packet containing your PC's Network Card's MAC address to the Network Broadcast Address, and your PC will boot. Their are websites you can go to where you can key in your NIC's MAC address, and your public IP address and it will generate and send the packet to your network provided you setup your firewall to forward the packets to your network broadcast address.

The ports used by WoL are UDP port 7, 8 or 9 IIRC.

tjsniper

I have wake on LAN set up i'm just looking for what ports it uses for a little project of mine.

anyways thanks for the help it saved me a lot of time as when i looked on google i got some people saying this and that and so on

Snowbat

The wikipedia article says port 0 was historically used but 7 and 9 are becoming the most common:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_on_lan

Surprisingly, I couldn't find any program that will make a computer sleep or shut down on receipt of a magic packet. Those I found offering remote shutdown do so through ssh (Linux), ARD (Apple), or RDP (Windows).

Alun

Here's one I found ...

http://www.downloadjunction.com/product/software/121365/index.html

tjsniper

ive actually made my own out of madness!

my psp was using port 60000 ??

anyway i might change my program to allow you to specifiy a port and give it away to people who want it.

anyways thanks for your help everyone

irekzielinski

There is a freeware application called SleepOnLan that needs to run on your Windows PC and will allow you to put your PC to sleep (or shutdown) remotely (via WWW browser): http://www.ireksoftware.com/SleepOnLan/

Overheal

The original hollywood wake on lan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZgap4XOIbk