teamviewer port forwarding

[Jeremy Duval]

im trying to have it so that my desktop at home turn on using teamviewer, while im at a different location. i can seem to figure out how to wake it up, i have bios set for wake on lan on. and the settings in the firewall as well as the netcard. i was told i need to set up a portfowarding on my router and have my ip fixed cant seem to figure that part out. do i need both computer to have fixed ip if so how. and second i have a comcast router/modem and a netgear router connected together do i have to portforward both of them thanks in advance

 

[bill001g]

I am surprised team viewer publishes incorrect information., then again it may not be an employee that wrote that.

Their method of using a slave computer that you remotely access to have it send the wake on lan to a computer that is off will work. You of course need to leave a machine on and connected to team viewew all the time.

The method of port forwarding though the router does not really work. There is no such thing as "wake on WAN" everything you find is a hack that does not work with most consumer routers.

The main problem is when a pc is asleep the OS and main cpu are not running. All that is active is the ethernet chip. Ethernet has no concept of IP addresses or ports it only understands mac addresses.

On a router you can only do things like set the main wan ip to a internal lan ip. There is no way to forward a mac address because internet is based on IP address not mac addresses.

Although people claim to get this to work using port forwarding it only works for a short time. If the machine was active the router will have a ARP entry cached that maps a IP to the mac but this normally only last maybe 15 minutes. So during that amount of time you can think you have "wake on WAN" functional. This is why you people posting that misinformation.

There are methods to do stuff like map static ip ARP entries to broadcast mac addresses but I have not see a router running factory firmware that can do that you have to load third party firmware. Once you do that you might as well just use the application that is also available on many of these router images that lets you remotely login to the router and have it send a real wake on lan.

Some factory routers images I think from asus has the ability to access the router itself remotely and then ask it to send the data to wake your computers mac address.

There are people that use a raspberry pi that can be remotely access to do this function and it is not dependent on teamviewer