WOL with BE speedtouch 780

I'm trying to use Wake On Lan with the speed touch 780 on the LAN side, but the magic packets don't seem to be finding there way to its destination. i have just finished building my freenas media server, and want to Wake it.

wake on lan is enabled at destination PC bios
MAC address correct.

Does port forwarding need to be used with the 780 (lan side) for magic packets broadcast?

Anyone have any ideas or info regarding Wake on lan with the speedtouch 780?

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I'm trying to do this as well, though I'm just interested in waking my machine from S3 sleep. I've got it all working, I can use this page http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/woli.aspx to wake my machine remotely.

I did this by setting up WOL on my machine and in windows and then configuring my Speedtouch to port forward ports 7-9 to it.

If you install Wireshark you can just sniff the packets arriving at your machine to see if the magic packet is getting through or not, with this and a bit of fiddling with your speedtouch config you should be good to go.

Now for my problem! WOL only works for 30 minutes or so after the machine has entered S3 sleep, after this it stops. I suspect this is something to do with the ARP cache on the speedtouch expiring and it no longer knowing where to forward the magic packet. Anyone got any information on viewing the ARP table on the Speedtouch?

Thanks,

Ok, think I've figured this out, this doc:

http://www.speedtouch.nl/docs/ST706WL-780WL_CLIguide.pdf

contains information about viewing and editing the arp table, which should solve the problem. Also found this:

http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bandaancha.st%2Fforos.php%3Ftemid%3D976350&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

Which looks like it's talking about the same kind of thing, I shall try it tonight.

please let us know once you got this working, sounds interesting ...

OK, I've got all this working a treat now. As suspected just needed to telnet into my Speedtouch and add a static entry to the ARP table for my PC, this means that the router can route to it even when it's switched off.

If anyone is interested I'll make a more detailed post about how to get this going.

Cheers,

I'm quite interested

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Ok, here goes then...

First you need to configure wake-on-lan on your pc. Go to the device manager and right click on your network adaptor, then go to the advanced tab. I have a couple of settings in here "Wake from Shutdown" which is "on" and "Wake Up Capabilities" which is set to "Magic Packet". Not sure if you need to do anything in the bios or not.

Once you've done this you should be able to put your computer into S3 standby and then wake it up using this program http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx, this will only work from within your local network and only for a few minutes after you put the machine into standby but if it doesn't work then your machine is not correctly configured.

Now you need to make a few configuration changes to your router. You'll need to make sure your machine has a fixed IP, it's ok to use DHCP as long as your make sure your machine is always given the same IP. You then need to add a new Game or Application to your Speedtouch, port range 7-7 called WOL or something, then assign this to your machine.

Once you've done this you should be able to wake your pc up from S3 standby using this page, http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/woli.aspx but again only for a few minutes after you put the machine into standby. If you can't get the machine to wake up then now is the time to install WireShark and see if the magic packets are getting to your PC.

Once you've got that going then you need to add a static entry to the ARP table on your Speedtouch, this will stop WOL from failing a few minutes after your machine goes to sleep. To do this, do the following:

1.) Telnet to your speedtouch, 192.168.1.254 (or wherever it lives) and login with your normal username and password.

2.) Type ip.

3.) Type arplist, this should print out your routers current arp table which should contain an entry for your machine.You need to delete this dynamic entry and add a static one so you need to take a note of the Interface, IP-Address and Mac-Address of your machine.

4.) Type arpdelete, enter "LocalNetwork" for intf, your machine's ip for ip and your machine's mac address for [hwaddr].

5.) Type arpadd and enter the same parameters above.

6.) Type arplist again, your machine should be back in the table but the entry in the type column should now read static instead of dynamic.

That's it, you should be good to go.

Enjoy.

Nice post!

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Once you've done this you should be able to put your computer into S3 standby and then wake it up

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Out of curiosity, do you use the 'Stand by' option in Windows for this?

I've always just shut down the computer and been able to wake it up from this state (although you have to find a BIOS option relating to WOL and/or PCI wake-up and turn that on). I don't know if this is a different type of magic packet though, I use wol_w32 command line tool from here.

Drool.

Hi ohopton

An excellent post you should really post this in the FAQ's on the official be forum.
I think there would be quite a few members interested in this.

Yep, but I'm actually using a MCE 2005 machine so I just tell it to put itself to sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity. It wakes itself up to record tv programmes and some other stuff and then puts itself back to sleep.

The whole point of this WOL thing is so I can run SoftSqueeze from work to connect to my home Slimserver (via an SSH tunnel, but that's another story...) and stream all my music, just needed to be able to wake the thing up so didn't have to leave it on all the time.