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2008-10-10 , 10:18
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Originally Posted by directore View Post
Problems solved, for those interested my problem was I was testing access to my server from my local network using that network's WAN IP, and that for same strange reason is a no go. Local access on local IP always works w/o a hitch as I said in my first posting.
Ofcourse that doesn't work. You connect to your WAN IP from an internal LAN interface. This way no port forwarding happening on the external WAN interface gets triggered. It shouldn't pass the external WAN interface because its an internal LAN packet not going to the Internet, and if it does pass the interface, it does so outgoing, not incoming. You can fix this with some additional firewall rules provided its worth the hassle.

Almost every computer supports WOL (Wake On Lan) provided its turned on in the bootable EEPROM, and the LAN card supports this. Which is both the case for computers & LAN cards of past ~10 years. No need to put suspend to RAM or suspend to disk (hibernate) off; there are useful features, good for your bills.
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