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shmuelw
New Member
January 27, 2016
Question

Wake on LAN (WON) over VPN

  • January 27, 2016
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I'm trying to set up Wake on LAN (WOL) so that I can wake my work PC from home. I can wake my PC from within our local network, but not from my home computer. The company is not keen on setting up port forwarding to broadcast the Wake on LAN packet (magic packet) for security reasons, but they have given me SSL-VPN access to the company server. However, when I run the Wake on LAN program from home, it doesn't wake my computer. I did a search on the Internet, and apparently VPNs don't like doing broadcasts.

 

Does anyone know if there is a setting in the FortiGate 400D that I can configure to allow it broadcast the magic packet via VPN access?

    2 replies

    Jirka1
    Explorer II
    May 19, 2017

    Hi shmuelw did you solve this problem?

     

    Thank Jirka

    shmuelw
    shmuelwAuthor
    New Member
    May 21, 2017

    No. Do you have any ideas?

    Jirka1
    Explorer II
    May 21, 2017

    Hi, 

     

    I used a solution from KB http://kb.fortinet.com/kb/documentLink.do?externalID=FD30104

    Instead of DMZ I used the SSL VPN interface. Works perfectly.

     

    Jirka

    aandcp
    New Member
    January 16, 2025

    There is an integration solution for this in FortiSwitch and FortiGates:

    https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortiswitch/7.2.8/administration-guide/600789/using-wake-on-lan-packets