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I was wondering, is there a way to wake up my PC over the Internet? I read some tutorials to wake it up over local LAN .. But what about through the Internet?

Note: I have a dynamic DNS registered via http://dyndns.com so I can use it to redirect to my home IP. Also, I can request static IP from my ISP.

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Yes, if you can tell your router to forward the packet. This may need one to run several telnet commands on most consumer NAT devices.

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    any tutorial on how to achieve that? I have a 3Com router.
    – sikas
    Oct 27, 2012 at 17:21
  • Ok, you need to be able to forward UDP port 9 to the subnet broadcast address, then to wake you send a UDP packet to port 9 of the routers public IP containing 6 bytes of FF and then 16 repeats of the MAC address of the computer you want to wake.
    – ewanm89
    Oct 27, 2012 at 23:36
  • Basically you need to get the final router to convert it to broadcast packet which aren't usually routed across subnets (for very good reason)
    – ewanm89
    Oct 27, 2012 at 23:39
  • Finally, routers tend to not allow this sort of thing as if it's not handled properly, the same technique can be used to pull off a kind of DDoS attack called a smurf attack against such a network.
    – ewanm89
    Oct 27, 2012 at 23:41

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