51
Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
41 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

So I want to setup a remote backup location at my parents house although they are very mindful about there electricity usage and environmental impact (and so am I) so I don't want to have to have a pc always on when it doesn't need to be.

Is it possible to setup remote Wake-on-lan so I can schedule my homelab at my place to wake up the server at my parents house and start a backup like once a week, I want to do this in a secure fashion as well so ideally no port forwarding, I currently use cloudflare tunnels for my home network.

Are there any other options or do you have a similar setup at your place?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 2 points 11 months ago

Well believe it or not, I used to do it too, by forwarding it directly to the lan host on port 9. No broadcasting required, just a regular UDP packet. I had a really shitty ISP router.

Would have to try again but I’m almost certain it would work, as long as the computer’s MAC address is still in the router’s ARP table.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent