Does the NIC have to support it:
Yes. It requires a 3 wire Wake-On-Lan connector on the motherboard and NIC.
Additionally, it normally requires an ATX motherboard that supplies
trickle current to the PCI bus when the PC is off.
Is it a handy thing to have?
To show off to other Netowrk Types - Yes. For practical value.... Maybe
How many times have you had the need to turn on a PC remotely?
How many Pc's in your organization haven't you disabled power management on
because it's buggy and unstable?
Lastly, How many of your users turn off their Pc's at night?
I'm not really sure it's worth the extra configuration/trouble.
3com's PCI nic's 3c905c have the connector and cable.
The neatest WOL thing I've ever seen is 30 Compaq Deskpro's being powered on
remotely, booting from the LAN, and self-installing their software from a
ghost image. (I was working at CompUSA, and we had to image 150 of these,
so we set this up.)
Good Luck,
Read your book last night (Good read)
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Subject: Off Topic: Wake on LAN technology
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:21:41 -0700
Hi folks,
I volunteer at our local high school in the PC Technology and Repair class.
This week we are studying motherboards. A lot of new motherboards support
Wake on LAN technology. Has anyone actually used this? Is it helpful in the
real world? Does the NIC have to support this technology too? I would think
it would.
Thanks for any comments. It will help me sound like I know what I'm talking
about when we cover new motherboards. &;-)
Priscilla, recovering Macintosh bigot
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