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Date:      Tue, 02 Apr 2024 21:41:19 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 218579] bge(4): Wake on Lan (WoL) does not work
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--- Comment #64 from Keve Nagy <freebsd.bug@nagykeve.e4ward.com> ---
No problem. To clarify, I was not talking about crashes either. You mention=
ed
that after a successful WOL, when you shut your computer down, it did not s=
tay
powered off, instead moments later it automatically started. That is an
automated start-up you did not expect. In other words, unexpected.
Again, I experienced no such phenomena. When I issued a "shutdown -p", my t=
est
computers always powered down properly and always stayed off. Regardless of=
 how
they were started up in advance, manually by their power button or woken by
magic packet.
To further clarify, they also properly powered down and stayed turned off i=
f I
sent WOL magic packets to them while they were on, even if it was moments
before "shutdown".
However, I did not test the particular case when a WOL magic packet is sent=
 to
the computer WHILE it is already in the process of shutting down.

None of my tests were performed on -STABLE or -CURRENT branch. I only teste=
d on
-RELEASE. The experience now was the same on 13.3R and 14.0R. With my previ=
ous
set of tests, WOL only woke the computer if it was shut down from a bge-pac=
hed
13.2R kernel, and did not wake it when it was shut down from a bge-patched
14.0R. In that sense, the latest patches are better.

My problem was that the bge-based computer could not be woken up once it was
powered down. With these patches, they wake up exactly as expected, on 13.3R
and on 14.0R too. So the problem I had, is now fixed. I don't really care t=
hat
WOL_MAGIC is automatically enabled and that I do not need to run an "ifconf=
ig
bge0 wol". The em0 in my Optiplex does exactly the same. I would call THIS =
the
expected behaviour. Others may disagree.

I can do more tests in May, if needed.

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