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Wake on LAN is a feature where one can send a broadcast over the network to boot a machine.

Wake On LAN works by broadcasting a magic packet containing the MAC address of the machines that needs to be woken up. Once the machine receives this packet it will start to powerup.

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wake-on-lan (wol) a server with full-disk encryption

I have a server installed with zentyal 3.0.2 (based on ubuntu 12.04.2) with full-disk encryption. While I successfully send the WOL packet and turn on the server, the boot process does not complete since the server disk is encrypted and I need to…
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Sleep/Suspend and WOL on FreeNAS

I am trying to figure out how to get FreeNAS 8 to sleep when inactive and, ideally, wake on lan activity (or, less ideally, wake on a WOL magic packet). However, as I've tried to search for information on how to do this, almost all discussions seem…
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How to forward UDP Wake-on-Lan port to broadcast IP with IPTABLES?

I'm trying to setup Wake-on-Lan for some of the LAN computers at home and it seems that I need to open a UDP port (7 or 9 being the most common) and forward all requests to the broadcast IP, which in my case is 192.168.1.255. The problem is that my…
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Does wake-on LAN/WOL depend on hardware or the operating system?

Does wake-on LAN/WOL depend on hardware or the operating system? Or both? How does one send a command to wake up a machine if it is supported (say a Fedora server)?
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Use wakeonlan by hostname rather than MAC/IP

I'm setting up a cluster and can wake up individual machines with the command wakeonlan -i 192.168.1.255 [MAC Address] I'd like to be able to do this by hostname instead of MAC, but the config file for wakeonlan only seems to offer IP <-> MAC…
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Windows XP Wake-On-Lan problem/question

I've been trying to make wake-on-lan work in Windows XP and I've succeeded partially. If I turn off my computer 'the right way' I can wake the machine using the magic packet without a problem. If I turn off computer by pressing and holding the power…
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Wake up a client computer from Windows Server

I have a handful of workstations and a Windows Server 2008 R2 in the same LAN. The workstations show up in the server's Active Directory. Is there a way to wake them up manually from the server when they're powered off?
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Wake OSX 10.8 over WiFi (WoWL - Wake on WiFi Lan)

I have a stack of Apple Mac minis running SSH servers for remote login. The problem is that I can't seem to get them to wake up. From what I gathered, as of Mac OSX 10.7 you required to have a boot time option set - darkwake=0 10.7 and darkwake=no…
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IPMI - is it possible to boot a server

Is it possible to use IPMI to boot a cPCI server with a backplane? (in a similar fashion to Wake-on-LAN)?
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Can I use wake on lan with VMWare ESXi guests?

I know that I can start the guests from the vmware management interface (vSphere?). Is wol working for the guests?
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ethtool, WOL: What does "wake on physical activity" actually mean and (how) can I use it?

I fighting with the WOL settings of my Ubuntu box at the moment. The idea is to have an HTTP/SVN server to sleep while it's unused and wake up when it's accessed. So far, wake-on-LAN works and is activated on startup: Settings for eth1: …
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Wake all sleeping machines on subnet

Our company just migrated to Windows 7 and decided to use the included "balanced" power plan. The main problem with this is that I use powershell to do remote management and sleeping machines don't respond to these commands. Does anyone have a…
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Make all computers go to sleep and wake up at a certain time?

Is there a way of making all the computers in our domain/environment go to sleep after say, 8PM and wake up at 7AM in the morning? I understand that this may need some sort of application for the server to communicate with but I believe this will…
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Does Wake-on-LAN work with non-integrated ethernet adapters?

Interested in the information presented for this question: Turn on Home Computer Remotely but I'm wondering if I absolutely need to use a motherboard integrated adapter in order to accomplish it. Have you had success employing WOL using a PCI…
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How to get ethtool wake-on-lan setting to "stick"?

I have a couple of machines in my server room normally powered off which it's useful to be able to power up remotely. One of them is an old dual-P3 IBM serverWorks Intel STL2 machine on which wake-on-LAN has performed flawlessly for years. I hit…
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