Wake on LAN - wol - Wi-Fi Extender/Repeater with Bridged AP over Ethernet

Hello, can i use WOL in this case?

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/wifiextenders/bridgedap

My PC ist WLAN Host 1 (Notebook with wifi connenction).

If i use the OpenWrt wifi connection, i don’t can send a magic packet this suggest.

It i use another wifi i can send magic packet with suggest, the pc is starting.

How can i solved the problem?

BR

ChrisM

edit: I want to start LAN Host 1 with WoL.

Absolutely no way. Radios are off when PC is off, like BT mouse cannot wake it either.

If have the problem only if i use the OpenWrt Router.

With another Router i can use WoL with suggest.

WoL start input template:

wakeonlan 00:30:18:01:73:fb

Notebook —— wifi-connection —— Router —— LAN-connetction—— LAN Host 1 PC (WoL works)

Notebook —— wifi-connection —— :nauseated_face: OpenWrt :nauseated_face: —— LAN-connetction—— LAN Host 1 PC (WoL doesn’t work)

++++ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMQk87szvBs

>> Wireguard WoL How can I make the Wake-on-LAN (WoL) magic packet travel from the VXLAN over WireGuard to the local network on the other end of the VXLAN?

Try making it use a broadcast packet. The etherwake command will use unicast by default, which will probably not survive a hop across a switch port if the target device is in a low power state. I'm not sure about the LuCI interface, but from the hex dump of the packet in that video, it looks like it was using unicast.

Here's how you would do that on OpenWRT command line:

etherwake -i br-lan -b 00:30:18:01:73:fb

Edit: It looks like the LuCI interface has a checkbox at the bottom for using broadcast that is not checked by default. You can also just try it with that checked.

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Did you, or other community member have a screenshot for me?

Sure:

This is the screen shown in that YouTube video you linked. If both the OpenWRT AP and the PC you're trying to wake are on LAN, this should work without issue.

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