Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 21:45:49 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <ade45ae90905132045j787b69fcl742689c93c4344f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090513114739.GA67782@ei.bzerk.org> References: <3a142e750905120310j7b811549xb01cd88ff2481ec4@mail.gmail.com> <15082180.2441242135390245.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> <20090513114739.GA67782@ei.bzerk.org>
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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> wrote: > 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 > I just noticed my 7.2-R i386 PC-Engines ALIX2 board with vr devices show up (WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC) in the ifconfig listing. Seems they're making some of it available in 7.2-RELEASE I'll have to test/try this out, I'm glad I'm starting to see it happen. Thought you'd all like to know.
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