Category: Networking
Wake a host on a different subnet or VLAN with OPNSense
If you need to wake a machine that exists on a different VLAN or subnet, it’s often not possible to do so easily as the UDP broadcast may not be routed across the subnet or VLAN boundary. One option is to use a UDP broadcast relay, but this can be fiddly to configure and from…
Using Wake-On-Lan to wake a Windows File History network drive
Here is a script I created to automatically wake my QNAP NAS when my laptop is on and trying to save file history. I use it in conjunction with a script to put the NAS back to sleep when idle. This script can also be used to wake a remote target for any other reason…
Automatically putting a QNAP NAS to sleep when idle
I have a QNAP NAS (TS-453A) that only gets used occasionally. When it’s not being accessed, I want it to automatically go to sleep so that it doesn’t consume power unnecessarily. I’m OK with having to wait for the system to resume and the disks to spin up again before accessing files. The only method…