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AjaySajjan
AjaySajjan
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August 8, 2019
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Help configuring wake on lan

  • August 8, 2019
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Hi

 

I have a fortigate 60E which has my desktop and a synology box connected to it.

 

Both devices are on the same subnet and connected to the hardware switch on the Fortigate.

 

I have made the necessary changes in windows i.e

Turn off fast startup on windows 10

Power management on the nic properties in device manager - all 3 boxes ticked.

And also in the BIOS

Motherboard - Asus Z170i Pro Gaming board - Enabled PCI/e wake on lan

 

I run a script via the task scheduler of my Synology DS918+  which i found on this site

https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-wake-up-windows-machine-via-wol-from-synology-nas

 

When running the task my PC doesn't appear to power on.

 

What I would like to achieve is, VPN on to my home network from my work machine ( which i am able to at the moment) then browse to the Synology DSM and run the task to power on my pc.

 

Am i missing something? What configurations do i need to make on the forigate?

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orani
orani
New Member
August 8, 2019

Wake on lan is a broadcast action, are there any logs for your broadcast address of the subnet you use at the fortigate? At what address did you configure synology to send wake on lan packets???

AjaySajjan
AjaySajjanAuthor
New Member
August 8, 2019

I am quite new to Fortigate products so apologies for my lack of knowledge.

 

How would i check these logs for the broadcast address?

 

At the moment all devices are on the same subnet 192.168.1.x

my synology is connected to ports 4 and 5 on the fortigate

port 7 will be a trunk port to my bedroom which connects to a switch, where my desktop connects in to.

 

In the future i will be breaking this up into different Vlans

 

does this help?

kallbrandt
kallbrandt
New Member
August 14, 2019

Wake on LAN is an ethernet broadcast (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) wich means it doesn't leave your broadcast domain. It isn't easily routed either, but there are ways to hack it, UDP-relays etc. Or: https://forum.fortinet.com/tm.aspx?m=145582

The Fortigate will to my knowledge not forward ethernet broadcasts. You can try to enable the forwarding of non-ARP broadcasts on your interfaces, but I think that only works in transparent mode. In your case, easiest solution would be to use a standard L2 switch.

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