setup pfsense for teamviewer wake on lan rule

Once all the fields are populated click Save. First click on the Add button, this will take us to a new page where we select the pfSense interface to send out the WOL packet, enter the MAC address of the target device and finally provide a useful description. Next I’m going to add a device to the permanent list in pfSense. We are presented with a menu giving the option to send a magic packet on demand or to setup devices which will be remembered by pfSense to make future power on requests easier.Īs an example, here I send a WOL magic packet to a single device on my LAN interface. It goes without the target devices must support Wake On LAN and the pfSense device must have connectivity to the relevant network.įirst off logon to the pfSense device and then browse to Services –> Wake On LAN

Using Wake On LAN will let me send a magic packet to all of them in one go through the pfSense interface.

I should mention that the servers I’m setting up for WOL do have their own IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) port which I can logon to and initiate a power on but that involves jumping on to a few web interfaces or SSH connections.

This is a pretty short post on how to use pfSense to send ‘ Wake On LAN (WOL) magic packets’ to an endpoint – in this case a server.

Setup pfsense for teamviewer wake on lan rule