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I am trying to set up my homelab to boot whenever it is being accessed. I set up wake on LAN for unicast, and it works fine for a while after shutting down the system. It stops working after a few hours of the server being turned off, though.

From what I'm gathering online, the issue is that my router uses an ARP cache. Before that gets flushed, it still works. However, it seems like my router does not allow me to configure a static ARP entry (using a ISP provided router). I already set a static IP for my server in the router, but it still won't work a few hours.

Is there any way to make this work? I just want to allow a friend of mine to boot my server whenever they try to access a service on it.

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you're saying that they need to direct the WOL unicast, on the same segment, to the MAC and not the IP, yes?

Then if they are in a remote subnet/LAN/network, they'll need to contact something local to generate the unicast packet.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

From what I’ve read, they either need a static ARP entry OR whatever was stated in the third paragraph.