Question: Is WOL on demand possible?

[lewoke]

Hi,

I'd like to do the following: Opnsense sends a WOL everytime  a client from LAN (own subnet) is requesting access to my home server on OPT1(own subnet).

I know there is the wol plugin but to my knowledge it only allows you to either wake up clients manually or via cron. Any ideas?

[fabian]

your server can call the same API the frontend is using to send the packet.

[qinohe]

@fabian, I'm curious how to do that are there examples anywhere?

@OP, you could use a script, untested, should work though, at least I think so  :P

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#!/bin/sh

MAC='00:11:22:33:44:55'
IP='192.168.10.100'
ARP=$(arp "$IP"|awk '{print $4 $5}')

[ "$ARP" = noentry ] && wol -i "$IP" "$MAC" || exit
exit 0

edit: @fabian, NVM I found the examples in the wiki, I now need to figure out how to use them  :D