jtc;196005 Wrote: > > I have read somewhere that the NForce chipset actually reverses the MAC > address, and was therefore wondering if the SB gives you the option to > specify a MAC address (rather than static IP) to which it will connect > for the purposes of waking the server? If it only uses IP, and the > machine fails to wake on a standard IP, how do I set it to wake the > Shuttle machine from the SB itself? >
The Squeezebox will send a WOL packet containing the MAC address it associates with the Slimserver host. This causes problems for users who have networking gear that prevents the Squeezebox from seeing the Slimserver host's real MAC address (the Squeezebox will send a WOL packet that the Slimserver host's NIC would ignore because the contents are wrong). A feature enhancement request has been filed, but I have no idea what its chances are of being implemented: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4664 If there's some bug in the NForce chipset that makes it insist on WOL packet contents that don't match the MAC address it uses, then you may be in trouble regardless of your network design. (You might be able to alter the Ubuntu startup scripts so that the 'ifconfig' tool would change the MAC address of your NIC to what WOL needs when Ubuntu boots, and, to be more cautious, in case the NIC remembers this once the OS is down and the PC is "off", change it back in the shutdown routine, after downing the ethernet interface.) -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34599 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
