Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [wake-on-lan]

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.

94 questions
2
votes
2 answers

Wake On Lan server for a local network - looking for software

I'm looking for a tool that let me register computers on a network (probably taking them from an LDAP database, that would be gorgeus), and then by using a web interface, wake them by sending a WOL magic packet. Only FOSS software, please This…
Jorge Suárez de Lis
  • 391
  • 8
  • 22
2
votes
7 answers

Wake on lan hosts file

Is there any such thing as a file linking MAC addresses to IP addresses / DNS names for use with wakeonlan on Linux? Something like this: $ cat /etc/machosts 00:1f:d0:34:e0:ea 192.168.0.5 00:1f:d0:34:a1:06 192.168.0.7 $ cat /etc/hosts 192.168.0.5…
Fela Maslen
  • 1,183
  • 2
  • 11
  • 19
2
votes
3 answers

Wake on Lan (WOL)

I'm trying to do a WOL for my Xenserver in my lab environment. However I am not able to do it. I have enable the BIOS settings of the physical server, and from what I can see, even when the server is turned off, the LAN led lights is on. Also I…
cyberquarks
  • 269
  • 4
  • 14
2
votes
1 answer

WOL not working with two NIC's

We have recently moved from a windows 2003 server to an 08 R2. Running the program from the command line says that the magic packet has successfully been sent but it never actually reached the destination computer. We have two NIC's on the server.…
amazinghorse24
  • 35
  • 1
  • 1
  • 7
2
votes
2 answers

Is it possible to wake a computer connected directly to its NIC?

If two computers are connected by ethernet directly (ie, with no router between them) can one computer wake the other using the magic packet? I ask because it's not working for me and I'm not getting very useful search results. If someone can…
Matt
  • 625
  • 1
  • 7
  • 14
2
votes
4 answers

wakeup on lan support

I am looking to setup WOL on a set of servers. These are Dell PowerEdge R210 servers running Centos 6.0. I searched the BIOS and I couldnt find the WOL option. My power management in BIOS has only i) CPU Power and Performance Management ii) Fan…
sethu
  • 371
  • 2
  • 16
2
votes
1 answer

How to enable suspend mode on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box?

I want to use Wake-On-LAN for my two office machines, both of which run Windows 2008 Server R2 (for Hyper-V), but it seems the Server SKU doesn't offer a suspend option anyway. I'm sure it's just a registry key or something. How can I enable my…
Andrew Arnott
  • 435
  • 1
  • 4
  • 11
2
votes
1 answer

Event Log "Wake Source" when system wakes from sleep

So I've been troubleshooting sleep timers for our systems and have run across an interesting issue. I need a way to report how long a system was awake after a number of different inputs. Now, I've discovered that the System Log tracks wake and sleep…
Doltknuckle
  • 1,244
  • 6
  • 25
  • 32
2
votes
1 answer

How to boot up Windows Server 2003 remotely using Wake On LAN?

I'm planning to get my Windows Server 2003 box to boot up using Wake on LAN (WOL), and have a few questions before diving in: Is WOL a feature of Windows, or of the BIOS and network card, or both? The Server 2003 box is connected to…
Saajid Ismail
  • 317
  • 3
  • 7
  • 18
2
votes
2 answers

Wake On LAN behaviour - works intermittently

When I send WoL packets over my network the specified boxes tend to wake up the first time I send the packet each day, but if I turn the box off then subsequent WoL packets tend to be unsuccessful. Is Wake on LAN designed to have a "cool-off" period…
Richard
  • 105
  • 2
  • 16
2
votes
2 answers

How to make Wake on Lan persistent in Debian buster?

I am on Debian 10 buster. Output of sudo ifconfig -a is enp0s7: flags=xxxx mtu 1500 inet 192.168.xx.xxx netmask 255.255.xxx.x broadcast 192.168.xx.xxx inet6 xxxx:xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx …
J C
  • 21
  • 3
1
vote
1 answer

broken WoL with vanilla kernel on Debian

I'm on Debian Buster/Sid, but I like to compile new vanilla kernels myself, just to try them out. However I face a recurring problem: if I use a Debian packaged kernel, Wake On Lan works correctly and I can wake my pc by sending the magic packet to…
Lucio Crusca
  • 330
  • 2
  • 10
  • 31
1
vote
1 answer

Wakeonlan doesnt work when I send it from router

I have a network connected to internet via linux box that does routing. Router has two interfaces: eth1: connection to internet eth2: lan In lan I have two machines: workstation target All machines work under Debian Linux. I try to start…
user70436
  • 13
  • 2
1
vote
1 answer

Re-enable S5WakeOnLan setting for Realtek NIC driver that's disabled and hidden by inf file

To be able to wake up a PC from the S5 'shut down' state, the OS has to prepare the NIC during system shutdown. For Realtek NICs, this is done by the "Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller" driver, but only if the option S5WakeOnLan "Shutdown…
theultramage
  • 393
  • 1
  • 4
  • 14
1
vote
2 answers

How to deal with race condition on Network Boot

I have a remote container filled with many PXE booted computers connected to an on site tftp/dhcp server. If there is a power outage, the server machine takes ages to boot and the PXE booted machines will time out and jump back into bios and never…
mraaroncruz
  • 191
  • 6
1 2
3
4 5 6 7