WOL sollution

[alan_smithee]

I've been searching for a wol sollution for my home network.
I've got two seperate networks that seperates my servers from my workstations. So a WOL broadcast from my server to my workstation isn't possible.

I've got my Asus AC66U in Access Point(AP) mode so this sollution is out of the question
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/WOL-Script-Wake-Up-Your-Webserver-On-Internet-Traffic
(since the firewall is disabled).

I can think of two options:
1) create a direct URL (if possible) to the WOL button in the gui.
like this: usernameassword@ipadress/Main_WOL_Content.asp
2) enable the IPTraffic monitor and look for a special event that triggers a wol script

Does anyone know if one of these two solutions will work or maybe has a better idea?
The main goal is that a I can send a http command from my Mios Vera to my Asus AP that triggers a WOL in that network segment.

 

[System Error Message]

more scripting

 

[Steffe]

I don't understand what you mean by separate....
I would simply port forward 34343 to 9 and then send wake on wan to 34343 after setting up af static arp entry using. Otherwise host a webpage something like yourip.org/jnfjh3qiu49823jbava7d7adgasd/ that contains a php command to execute wol.

 

[alan_smithee]

I'm running Sohpos UTM with 4 Nics', 2 in lan 2 in wan.

I don't think it's possible to forward a broadcast with portforwding.

That's an interesting suggestion. Something like this
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Lighttpd-web-server-with-PHP-support-through-Entware

 

[Steffe]

Well. I use a setup to forward a wol broadcast. So it's definitely doable.

 

[Deleted member 27741]

Could something like plink or putty work to log in and execute a WOL command?

 

[alan_smithee]

Could something like plink or putty work to log in and execute a WOL command?

I thought of that to but the Mios Vera doesn't have a plugin for putty and I don't have enough knowlegde of LUA the write something myself.

Ive been experimenting with Lighttpd on my Asus but I allready have issues running a simple webpage. I'll post the sollution when works.

 

[alan_smithee]

Well I got it working. It doesn't look fancy but it does the job done.
It also has a php ping script so I can check if the pc is on or not.

I got Entware running by following this guide.
Then I installed Lighttpd with PHP support following this guide

I created a file named WOL_pcname.php with this content.

<?php
    # replace with your target MAC address
    $mac = 'AA:AA:AA:AA';

    exec("ether-wake $mac");

# replace with your Asus router adres
header('Location: 192.168.1.1:81')
?>

This way I can go directly to this URL and wake up the pc.

I also wanted to wake up the pc by phone so I created a index.php file with the following content

<?php
function ping($host)
{
        exec(sprintf('ping -c 1 -W 5 %s', escapeshellarg($host)), $res, $rval);
        return $rval === 0;
}

$host = 'IPADRESS OR HOSTNAME';
$up = ping($host);

?>

<style type="text/css">
.tg  {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;}
.tg td{font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding:10px 5px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;overflow:hidden;word-break:normal;}
.tg th{font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;padding:10px 5px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;overflow:hidden;word-break:normal;}
.tg .tg-s6z2{text-align:center}
.tg .tg-ipa1{font-weight:bold;background-color:#c0c0c0;text-align:center}
</style>
<table class="tg">
  <tr>
    <th class="tg-ipa1">Computer Name</th>
    <th class="tg-ipa1">Status</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-s6z2"><a href="WOL_pcname.php">PC Name</a></td>
    <td class="tg-s6z2"><?php echo ''.($up ? 'up' : 'down').''?> </td>
</table>

I've zero knowlegde of PHP/HTML so I scraped everything from examples like this ping script from the internet.

If someone wants to clean up the code or adjust the page please do.