Re: Was [OT] Help with power usage calculation, Now: Wake on lan problem

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Sorry, I should have said that I've looked at that once, and if I
> understand it correctly, the broadcast address I need is:
>
> 192.168.0.5 =     11000000.10101000.00000000.00000101 (Home PC IP on
the
> home network, fixed IP address)
>
> 255.255.255.0 = 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 (Subnet mask, set
by
> router, but can be changed)
>
> Inverted =          00000000.00000000.00000000.11111111
>
> Ored together = 11000000.10101000.00000000.11111111 = 192.168.0.255
>
> Is that correct?
Yes.

>
> I can't access that address from outside the router.  If I try to set
up
> the firewall rule to direct my request to 192.168.0.255 I get an
Invalid
> LAN IP address error from my router, and it won't let me set the rule.
> So it doesn't work.
Oh. Hopefully there'll be an expert along any minute now....

You could always use a cgi script (assuming you have a web server at home)
so you can
trigger it from any web client.

Paul