From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 13 11:47:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1E9106564A for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 11:47:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (tunnel490.ipv6.xs4all.nl [IPv6:2001:888:10:1ea::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F208FC08 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 11:47:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n4DBle8M067838; Wed, 13 May 2009 13:47:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id n4DBldf0067837; Wed, 13 May 2009 13:47:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 13:47:39 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: Peter Steele Message-ID: <20090513114739.GA67782@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Peter Steele , #freebsd-questions References: <3a142e750905120310j7b811549xb01cd88ff2481ec4@mail.gmail.com> <15082180.2441242135390245.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15082180.2441242135390245.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ei.bzerk.org X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (ei.bzerk.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 13 May 2009 13:47:42 +0200 (CEST) Cc: #freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:47:45 -0000 On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:36:31AM -0700, Peter Steele typed: > > FUD, read ifconfig(8) > > There is no mention of wake-on-LAN in the man page for ifconfig in 7.0. I'd be interested in seeing if the 8.0 man page has added anything. It has: wol, wol_ucast, wol_mcast, wol_magic Enable Wake On Lan (WOL) support, if available. WOL is a facil- ity whereby a machine in a low power state may be woken in response to a received packet. There are three types of packets that may wake a system: ucast (directed solely to the machine's mac address), mcast (directed to a broadcast or multicast address), or magic (unicast or multicast frames with a ``magic contents''). Not all devices support WOL, those that do indicate the mechanisms they support in their capabilities. wol is a syn- onym for enabling all available WOL mechanisms. To disable WOL use -wol. Ruben