Anydesk Wol Not Working [exclusive] -

The problem had started subtly two weeks ago. His office’s IT guy, a perpetually overworked man named Leo, had updated the network switch firmware. In the process, a tiny setting——had been toggled off. Leo didn't notice because everyone was working remotely. Who used Wake-on-LAN anymore?

"Yes. It just spins and says 'Request sent,' but the PC doesn't turn on."

"What old way?"

Arjun had checked everything twice before leaving Austin. In the Anydesk settings on his office PC, the "Wake-on-LAN" toggle was green. In the BIOS, "Wake on PCIe" was enabled. His network card properties in Windows had "Allow this device to wake the computer" checked. All the boxes were ticked. It should have worked.

Leo laughed. "You want to SSH into a thermostat to wake up a computer?" anydesk wol not working

The status flickered. changed to "Starting..." changed to "Online - Unattended Access."

At 12:14 AM, Leo typed the command: wakeonlan D4:F5:23:1A:7C:9E The problem had started subtly two weeks ago

Another pause. Then Leo sighed. "I think I know what it is. When I updated the switch, I disabled broadcast forwarding across VLANs. Your Anydesk ID is attached to the main VLAN, but the magic packet? It’s probably getting eaten at the gateway. The packet is arriving at the router, but the router doesn't know which port to scream it to."