Re: [Hampshire] Wake on Lan

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Author: Adam Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Wake on Lan

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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x5788e100.hantslug.org.uk.28646': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Mon Feb 26 18:32:36 2007 GMT
gpg: using DSA key 019AD0D8166C4BF0
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Monday 26 February 2007 11:19, Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> Has any body done this? I am able to wake my computer up within the
> home network but not able to wake the computer up over the internet.
> Is this possible to do this over internet?


There is a nice article on wake-on-lan on the DA.org site:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/122

It doesn't mention Internet, but looking at it, I'm not sure how you send a
packet across the Internet when you only know the mac address.

In the thread there is a service mentioned that apparently does this.

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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