Re: wireless card remote power on comptuer

Jeff Liebermann wrote:

The problem is that Magic Packet (a broadcast) will propogate nicely
on the LAN side of a router. However, it will not go through the
router from the internet to the LAN, which is what most people want do
do. I don't know how to do that. However, if you setup a VPN from a
client to a router, the client appears as if it were on the LAN side
and Magic Packet again works.

True, but isn't the VPN only active when the VPN software is running on the client?

Unless you want to use something like a Netscreen hardware client between the router and the client, to keep the VPN connection open.

You could always buy something like "http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html";

However not all BIOSes and motherboards allow setting them to power-up the computer upon AC power being applied. I worked on this issue with thin clients, and it was a nightmare. It wasn't just powering up upon AC power, it was powering up upon AC power, only if the unit was powered up prior to the AC power being removed. Some south bridges support this, some south bridges don't support it at all.

Worst case, you could kluge something to the power supply power-on line, to simulate the power button being pushed or use the RPS-ATX Computer System Reboot Device (see "http://www.remotepowerswitch.com/"; at the bottom of the page), and combine it with the device at ""http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html";.
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