On Mon Jul 30 07:24:38 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I am setting up a machine to do firewalling/IP masquerading. I'd like to > be able to leave this machine on all the time, but perhaps in a > powered-down mode, so it's not using as much electricity, and not so noisy > at night. I envision it in standby or suspend mode, but waking up > whenever someone on my internal LAN wants to access the internet. > 1) Is this possible? > 2) What would be the steps to go about setting linux up for wake-on-lan > access?
1. Get the right combination of hardware. You need a NIC that can do it, a motherboard/power-supply that can do it, and a wire from a couple of pins on the NIC to a couple of pins on the motherboard. 2. Get a driver that supports it. 3. Enable WoL support in the driver 4. Shut down the machine softly enough 5. Get a program that can send the magic ethernet frames to trigger WoL In my case, the things are 1. 3Com 3c905C Tornado 2. standard 3c59x.o 3. options 3c59x enable_wol=1 4. APM enabled, so 'shutdown -h now' shuts down properly 5. etherwake.c by Donald Becker 'etherwake' needs to be run explicitly, as root - thus, I only answered part of your question. I imagine doing WoL automagically would be difficult. Still, WoL is a nifty thing, even if you have to do it manually. /Jörgen -- // Jörgen Grahn "...idols of gold, and silver, and brass, [...] \X/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk." -- Revelation, 9:20