MasterP said:
AFAIK, there is no way to make it wake up for specific protocols. When WOL is activated, the network adapter waits for a specific frame sent to a specific port. There’s not a whole lot of flexibility since the actual waiting functionality is firmware based.
I mean, if it happens at a layer above the NIC wouldn’t it work? For instance, if the router was to handle the WOL under certain scenarios it would possibly work?
I have to look into ww-drt or tomato and see if either does some fun WOL stuff. My friend has an Apple Airport and says that it wakes his server on web traffic. Appealing, but not $180 worth of appealing. Because his Apple product can do it, though, it makes have a bigger drive to get it done for a quarter of the cost.