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Re: How to Configure Wake on LAN (WOL) and Broadcast Magic Packets

Farshad Kargar — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:04:26 -0000

Go to http://www.gknw.com/wol.html and download windows version of wol*.zip . This will send a wakeup packet based on mac address. You can get the mac address by typing ipconfig /all in dos command line. With this utility you should be able to wake up a turned off computer as long as wol is configured in the bios and the power supply is turned on. I have done this in DELL PowerEdge 2900 - WIndows Server 2003.

Re: How to Configure Wake on LAN (WOL) and Broadcast Magic Packets

mutantworm — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:32:32 -0000

Windows users type 'ipconfig /all' to find MAC addresses.

Re: How to Configure Wake on LAN (WOL) and Broadcast Magic Packets

Ric — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:55:55 -0000

"If you are using a Windows machine you have my sympathies."

What a biased article this is!!! If you have a Windows System, as the majority of the population has, all you have to do is type "cmd" in the Run application (it's on Start menu), and then type "ipconfig /all" in the command line.
Your MAC is the Hexadecimal code that shows up in the line named Physical Address.
Also if you have a laptop, your MAC is printed on the bottom of it, in a label saying "MAC: ", and that's independent of any Operating System.

Re: How to Configure Wake on LAN (WOL) and Broadcast Magic Packets

Skippy — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:52:11 -0000

--- "can you clarify "WOL will only work if you computer was last powered off “softly”".."

What this means is that if you powered down via software, the front panel power switch or etc then the WOL will be able to wake the computer up. A 'hard' shutdown is where you turned off the power switch on the back of the case or unplugged the machine. In those cases the power is physically cut off from the machine and it won't boot.

Re: How to Configure Wake on LAN (WOL) and Broadcast Magic Packets

colorchart — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:55:04 -0000

can you clarify "WOL will only work if you computer was last powered off “softly”"..

does this mean that the computer has to be on standby or can i shut it down and this will start it back up again

thanks... i really want to try this because my test server is in my loft and its a real pain in the but climbing up there every morning to switch it on and then off again at night

Re: How to Configure Wake on LAN (WOL) and Broadcast Magic Packets

Vitya — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:13:11 -0000

hey,
please tell me how did you fix it for p5n-e?
if you can tell me exactly what did you enabled in bios, I would really appreciatre

thanks in advance

Re: How to Configure Wake on LAN (WOL) and Broadcast Magic Packets

Sam — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:26:48 -0000

@cisco - Since your machine powers on and begins booting, the problem is most likely not due to waking the machine via LAN. Your problem is most likely Windows related. I'm afraid I can't be of much help to you figuring this problem out. Good luck.

Re: How to Configure Wake on LAN (WOL) and Broadcast Magic Packets

cisco — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:07:07 -0000

I got a problem with my setup. I configured WOL on my server 2003 ENTerprise, the server turns on, but when is booting up it freezes when loading windows You know! when the process bar is running accross the screen

Re: How to Configure Wake on LAN (WOL) and Broadcast Magic Packets

Bill — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:16:27 -0000

The MAC address of a Windows machine is easily determined by Using the Run command from the Start Menu. Open a "DOS" window by typing "CMD" in the RUN textbox. When the window opens type
IPCONFIG /ALL. The MAC address of all interfaces will be displayed. Note: I am not visiting this site because of any great fondness for MS products!

Re: How to Configure Wake on LAN (WOL) and Broadcast Magic Packets

Sam — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:57:56 -0000

@graham - Thanks for the comment. I forgot to mention in the post that some ethernet cards require software activation of wol capabilities.

Re: How to Configure Wake on LAN (WOL) and Broadcast Magic Packets

graham — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:01:58 -0000

Thanks for the tip. It took me a while to get my Asus P5N-E SLI working with Wake On LAN but in the end the fix was simple.

sudo ethtool -s eth0 wol g

Then shutdown and now the magic packet works!