Getting Linux to set the network interface for WoL at startupįirst determine which network interfaces you have in the system and determine
Magic packet is to use a tecnhique that Debian and Ubuntu systems have been usingįor a while: set up a little systemd target to do the work. So now the hest practice for setting the network interface to watch for the WoL That can still be done, but it also requires having to configure a startup Prior to that theīest practice was to add a line to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX. Interface starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6. Hat, including Fedora and CentOS, changed how they configure the network Getting Linux to set the Wake-on-Lan feature on system restart has been the
If that’s not done there’s a good chance the card’sįirmware will turn off the interface altogether when the system is shut down, The WoL feature has to be enabled in the network interface every time Twenty years ago, so even most older computers support it.īut you can’t simply set the BIOS to start the computer on WoL and expect it to
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Sees FFFF FFFF FFFF followed by 16 repetitions of its MAC address, was defined Magic Packet technique, where the computer wakes up when the network interface The computer’s on-board network interface and BIOS have to support it. Wake-on-LAN is a protocol for turning on a computer that is (mostly) powered offīy sending a “magic packet” over the local area network. I’ve triedĪ couple of times in the past with no success. This week I decided to see if I could get Wake-on-LAN (WoL) working.
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