ARP table for WOL on WAN side

[hrohibil]

Hi

In PFsense is it possible to setup a static table in ARP? As i want to use it for enabling wake on lan(WAN) for my synology NAS.
On an old router where i flashed it with WRT firmware i inserted an ARP script as this seemed the ONLY way in could wake my NAS over the internet.

Br Hamid

[JKnott]

@hrohibil

To use WoL, you need to set up a relay, which can carry the WoL frame through routers.

Basic WoL will not pass through routers.

[johnpoz]

To do a wol from pfsense, just click the little button in the dhcp leases ;) Which will add that mac to your wol table..

Not sure why anyone would want to have their nas in standby in the first place ;) Mine is doing all kinds of stuff in the background during "off" hours.. Creating plex video previews, maint on plex, etc.

Never know when someone going to watch a movie at 3 am as well, etc.

There is also normal other maint that synology goes through off hours, backups, reports, etc.