Waking a device outside my virtual network

[ando (Denis)]

Hello,

I run ipfire in proxmox to “isolate” my virtual machines from my home network.
This works great and I really like the setup, but I’m struggling with waking up my backup machine.

I’d like my VMs (GREEN, 10.10.10.0/24) to wake a physical machine (RED, 192.168.178.0/24) via WoL so they can back up their data to an external device.

I already have this setup running on other physical devices and it works great, but I can’t wake my backup device from the GREEN network (that makes sense as WoL is intended for LAN-use only).
Can I somehow mirror the WoL UDP packets into the RED network through ipfire?

I read that I can use fcron to wake the server up. That would solve the problem, but that hides logic inside the system file and I consider that bad practice.
Are there other ways?

I’m happy about every help I can get.

• Denis

[tphz (iptom)]

I hope the following threads will give you some hints.

Sending WoL magic packets from IPFire

Hello, Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I could send Wake-on-LAN packets from a shell (fcron) in IPFire? I can’t see any utilities (or addons) included with IPFire which can send them. Would using a python script be the easiest way? I’m a bit unclear as to how I direct the packet to a specific interface if it’s addressed by MAC. Will linux just route the packet properly that based on the arp table? I only need to wake one computer once a day on a specific interface. Thanks!

Etherwake and Cron or FCRON

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