Is there a facility to execute a wake-on-lan from the winbox.
I have been trying with the magic packet software, but I can’t get it to work. I have tried to monitor the traffic on the port defined for the magic packet, but it doesn’t seem to even get to my router.
Not succeeding with the magic packet, I was just wondering if there is a facility - or script that could be executed from the router.
Does any of you have a working WOL?
Thanks a lot, nest, That is exactly was I was looking for.
Now I just need to make it work and I just can’t figure out why it is not functioning.
The network adapter is set up to accept wol on magic packet. BIOS is set up with wol enabled. I had the whole system power down and up again - switched off power.
There is 2 switches between the RB750 and the PC. Can that have any impact?
I also seem to have a syntax problem with the syntax as written in the mikrotik manual. The “=” sign is not accepted
But when I execute in two lines, then there is no syntax error, but the wol still doesn’t work.
I tried to set op a power-up-on-RTA in bios, and it worked. The PC started without any problem at the time set.
I just can’t figure out whats wrong.
I think you forgot the ‘/’
the command is
/tool wol mac=00:01:02:03:04:05
Works for me. v4.2
You are then proving where exactly the ‘magic packets’ are being blocked.
WOL magic packets are broadcast, there is no information that is returned by the client to the device sending the WOL packet, so it will never know if it arrived or not.
Nice one 
It’s not important, because he was in “main” menu.
The NIC leds are on and the card seem to be powered and alive.
I took a looong cable and got the pc connected directly to the RB.
and for safety I added the /
But still no cigar
I will try to upgrade to v4.2 to see if this will help. Something must be wrong since it does not accept the same syntax that works for you.
Upgraded to v4.3. This solved the syntax problem, but still not able to start my pc by WOL. Motherboard is an ASUS M2N-E
any ideas?
What happened when you performed test2 with a PC using WOL software ?
Maybe a bit closer now.
I tried both suggestions in 2.
Connecting the PC directly to the RB did not work and execute the magic packet from winbox did not work.
However, Connecting the to PC’s with just one switch in between worked.
I will try to take my laptop and connect it to directly to the router to see if the packet will pass the router and the two switches onto my pc.
Even with the laptop sending the package connected to the router it works.
laptop → RB750 → switch1 → switch2 → PC
Starts perfectly on WOL using
But still no luck sending tha package using winbox and the tool in RouterOS.
what if you add the interface command e.g.
/tool wol mac=00:01:02:03:04:05 interface=ether1
replacing ether1 with the exact spelling of the correct interface name. For a list of valid interface names you can press ? after interface=
Got it. That worked
Thanks a lot nest for your help with this.
Maybe the Mikrotik guys should have a look at this. Because the interface I specified is identical default gateway interface. In this case LAN1_Mater - or have I misunderstood this?
0 ADS 0.0.0.0/0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1
1 ADC 192.168.0.0/24 192.168.0.1 LAN1_Master 0
2 ADC xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32 212.81.20.60 GTS 0
Excellent news!
Yes, I think you’ve misunderstood the concept of the default gateway. The routes are fine. It looks like you added a static route for route 0 (because it has a distance of 1), routes 1 and 2 have been added by the OS dynamically when you added the addresses to the interfaces ‘LAN1_Master’ and ‘GTS’ (as their distance is 0).