Re: wakeonlan

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Paul Csanyi wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a small network at home.
>
> I want to setup the gateway/router Debian Etch to wake up the server box with
> wakeonlan.
>
> The server box - Debian Etch has enabled the "Resume on LAN" field in
> the Power Management Setup of the Award BIOS.
>
> The server box have also a NIC with wake on LAN cable properly set up.
>
> When I run the command wakeonlan the server box wan't not to wake up.
>
> I use the right MAC address of the servers NIC in this command.
>
> Why can't I use wakeonlan to bring up the server from the gateway?
>
> Any advices will be appreciated!

You have to ensure that the network card is not powered down when the 
system is shut down. After shutdown, check whether the LEDs of the 
ethernet adapter are on. If not you may have to use `ethtool` to ensure 
that the ethernet card is not powered down.

I use `ethtool -s eth0 wol g` to achieve this.


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