There are many reasons why you want to have remote access to a system.

Wake On Lan is a function developed by AMD back some years ago and implemented in most NICs available these days. My Intel Pro 100/1000 onboard adapter supports it and with my recent purchase (a OneClick ‘intelligent’ power extension block) it was provided the necessary ‘flea’ power so that it would be able to receive the packet. WOL is really easy if the machine you want to wake up is on the same IP subnet but what if the machine is only accessible through the Internet? Well that needn’t be a show stopper either
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