For the next twenty minutes, Arjun guided Leo over the phone. Leo, now fully awake, remoted into his own home machine, then VPN'd into the office, then SSH'd into the dusty Raspberry Pi. They ran sudo apt-get install wakeonlan . They found the office PC's MAC address— D4:F5:23:1A:7C:9E .
Leo laughed. "You want to SSH into a thermostat to wake up a computer?" anydesk wol not working
"I want to install a WOL package on it and send the magic packet from inside the network." For the next twenty minutes, Arjun guided Leo over the phone
Then, Arjun refreshed Anydesk on his laptop. They found the office PC's MAC address— D4:F5:23:1A:7C:9E
Leo was quiet for a moment. "Did you try the secondary method? The 'Cloud Relay' wake-up?"
He closed his laptop, lay back on the hotel pillow, and made a mental note: Always have a backup plan for the backup plan. And never trust Anydesk WOL without testing it from outside your own Wi-Fi first.
He needed one file. One stupid configuration file on his office computer in Austin. The server migration was tomorrow morning, and he’d just realized the IP address in the script was wrong.