WOL IN WAN not working

cobellig

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Jul 18, 2012
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10,510
Firmware Version: 3.15.31 Build 130925 Rel.32445n
Hardware Version: WR1043 v2 00000000
TP link WR1043ND

Hi everyone.This time i give up and i ask for help!

First of all let me say i never got as much for the buck as with this router, it works great and cost very little.
FTP to the USB storage is flawless so is the remote management,port forwarding (utorrent emule...) works fine.
The router is next to a ISP modem,the ISP has bridged my router so that it has a WAN Public IP, like it was in DMZ,exposed.

What it does not work (yet) is the WOL from outside my house.

In any state my NAS (windows 7 pc) is, it will wake up from any Dvice within my network 192.168.1.xxx, but not from outside, as if the Magic package wont arrive.

I have forwarded port 7 and 9 to my internal 192.168.0.105 but it wont work, on the same nas i open say port 333333 and i can check and confirm it works.

So am i doing something wrong, WOL wont work via public IP,or what am i missing? I tried using wireshark but is too complicated for me.

My goal? From anywhere in the world to awake my nas so that i can use Logme in or Teamviewer to use it.
 
The problem is that WOL works with by using a broadcast address (x.x.x.255) in your network, and broadcast addresses can't be forwarded ports. The solution for this would be to create a static ARP entry on your router to a free IP address within the local network with access to port 9 and assign physical address FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (broadcast MAC).