Mac Mini Wake on Lan

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My Mac Mini has a setting in the Energy Saver category called Wake for Ethernet network access.

Now the way I read this option is that any network access to the Mac whilst it is asleep will wake it up, but it doesn't.

I have read that I have to send it the magic packet to wake it up, but what I really want to do is be able to simply attempt to access the Mini over the network and it wake up on demand without sending a magic packet.

Can this be done? If it helps I am using a Netgear router.

Best Answer

It does not have option to wake computer without sending magic packet. If that was possible, each packet that arrives would wake it up. And you would be surprised how many packets can come to any port that is alive.

Magic packet serves purpose to differentiate normal network traffic from one that should actually wake computer up.

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