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Created on ‎10-03-2023 04:32 PM

Wake On LAN

Has anyone gotten Wake on LAN to work over IPSec VPN tunnels?

 

I am struggling with it. 

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Created on ‎10-03-2023 09:04 PM

Hi BackerTheHacker,

 

Wake-On-LAN uses broadcast packets as seen from the packet captures on https://wiki.wireshark.org/WakeOnLAN.md.

 

To enable the Forwarding of Broadcast packets over the IPsec tunnel, you will need to add a new Phase 2 selector for the IPSec tunnel, then enable broadcast forward on the IPSec tunnel interface and also create a multicast policy for the same.

 

The below KB explains the same:
Technical Tip: How to configure FortiGate forward broadcast
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-configure-FortiGate-forward-broadca...

 

Technical Tip: Broadcast traffic over site-to-site IPsec VPN
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Broadcast-traffic-over-site-to-site-IPsec-...

 

I hope it will help you.

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