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Re: Wake on LAN question



On Monday July 30 2001 09:24, Robert Kerr wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am setting up a machine to do firewalling/IP masquerading.  I'd like to
> be able to leave this machine on all the time, but perhaps in a
> powered-down mode, so it's not using as much electricity, and not so noisy
> at night.  I envision it in standby or suspend mode, but waking up
> whenever someone on my internal LAN wants to access the internet.
> 1)  Is this possible?
> 2)  What would be the steps to go about setting linux up for wake-on-lan
> access?
>
> thanks

I haven't done this myself, but you might want to look at the APM support in 
the Linux kernel. I think there is either a power howto or an APM howto. I 
remember reading about this when I was researching ways to enable suspend on 
my laptop. I think it's doable.

HTH,
Andy



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