"Yes. It just spins and says 'Request sent,' but the PC doesn't turn on."
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." anydesk wol not working
"I know, I'm sorry. Anydesk WOL isn't working. I'm stuck." "I think I know what it is
Arjun sighed, rubbing his eyes. It was 11:47 PM. He was lying in a hotel bed in Chicago, staring at his laptop screen. On it was a frozen, grey Anydesk window with the dreaded message: It’s probably getting eaten at the gateway
The next morning, Leo re-enabled broadcast forwarding. And Arjun never again assumed that a sleeping computer would hear him knocking from across the internet.
But it didn't.
"Good," Leo said, yawning. "Now for the love of all that is holy, turn on a scheduled task that wakes the PC up for updates every night, so you don't have to rely on Anydesk WOL again. It's flaky as hell across subnets."