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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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Automated Enable of Wake on LAN

Does anyone know of an automated way to enable Wake on LAN capabilities in the BIOS?
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Passing Wake On LAN traffic across subnets with Dell PowerConnect 62xx

I am working on an SCCM project that requires powering on computers in the middle of the night to run updates. SCCM can send the WoL packets, but I am struggling to figure out how to pass this across routers. Our core router is a Dell PowerConnect…
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Cannot enable WOL in Ubuntu using ethtool

I'm trying to build a linux box that will run without a monitor or keyboard, runs Ubuntu server, will go into suspend after a certain amount of time and is able to be woken up through network communication. Most of it is already in working order,…
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Wake on Lan for Dell Poweredge 2950?

I'm looking into the possibility of using Wake On Lan for a machine used in a test lab to run VMs. It doesn't really need to be on all the time, so it would be nice to be able to power it down when it's not being used to save electricity. Looking…
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Server 2016 where is Magic packet registry setting

Does anyone know where "Only allow a magic packet to wake this computer" setting has moved to in 2016-core? This 2016-core server can be kept awake by continuous pings or if I let it suspend it can be woken by a Magic Packet but does not wake on…
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WOL and WOW does not work after a certain time

I have configured my PC to turn it on by WOL and WOW (By DDNS). Both of them are working correctly, the problem is that if the PC remains off for a few hours, the WOW no longer works, but the WOL continues to work. But if I turn on the PC and turn…
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Ubuntu wake-on-lan for Dell 4550?

I'm asking this question on behalf of a friend. I don't have access to this hardware, but I can contact my friend to get more info as required. Does anyone know how to get wake-on-lan to work on a Dell 4550 with any recent version of Ubuntu? My…
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Window 2008 Server R2 wakeup on network access

I have a Windows 2008 R2 standard Server. I want the server go to sleep when the server does not accessed by other machine for a period of time, say 10 min., then go to sleep mode. However, once a network access from other machine, it wake up. How…
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Wake on LAN timing out when left overnight

I have a direct ethernet connection between a Windows 10 PC and a Raspberry Pi. I have the Pi set up as a server that I can hop onto and run a script that will run Etherwake, a command line Wake on lan program, and it works fine when I test it by…
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Ethernet switch forgets me too soon

My workstation is connected to one of the corporate ethernet switches. There are multiple VLANs. ipv4 broadcast and ipv6 FF02::1 only work within current VLAN. I have enabled wake on lan and waking it with a magic packet from another workstation,…
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How to set up subnets for small business infrastructure

At one location we have a single server (also a DHCP server) and much less than 254 clients. Many are wired, but there are also a couple of wireless routers, which occasionally have their wired ports used too. Right now the wireless routers have…
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How can I script the shutdown of a host by a remote server when rsync completes and no users are logged in?

This is what I have so far. This script would run on a Network Services host that does things like DHCP etc... and in this instance should be waking and sleeping computers for backup. #!/bin/bash ## This script exists to wake up the Digital Audio…
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ESXi Wake on LAN single host

I have a single esxi host I want to use WOL (wake on lan) to remotely power on. I do not have a vcenter server setup. Everything i've read says you have to have a Vcenter server and Vmotion setup to utilize wake on lan. Is this correct or can I send…
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Wake up a remote computer connected behind a router

I want to switch on a remote computer running debian linux connected behind a wireless router through LAN with my laptop which is connected to the router over a wireless connection. I have wakeonlan installed it gives Support Wake-on as "pumbg" and…
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Can't get Windows 2008 R2 support for Wake-On-Lan

I am trying to get a Windows 2008 R2 server to Wake On Lan (WOL), but I am failing. Before you ask the usual questions: 1: YES - the hardware supports it (Dell Precision T3400) 2: YES - the BIOS is set to allow it 3: YES - it works with Windows 7…
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