Some network devices and PCs can listen for incoming special packets on their ethernet interfaces even when shutdown, and this is used to allow them to be powered up with a special magic packet, which is used by Wake-On-Lan (from now WOL). Let’s see how we can use WOL from Public Network on our home RouterOS-based Mikrotik Router. — WOL is usually done by generating a packet with destination IP address the broadcast address of the network (in a common 192.168.0.0/24 network, it is directed to 192.168.0.255 or 255.255.255.255), which produces an ethernet frame with FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF destination mac address. This broadcast frame is processed by all the hosts on…