Fwd: Wake up time

Anselm Strauss amsibamsi at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 19:28:17 UTC 2009


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi at gmail.com>
> Date: September 22, 2009 8:55:42 PM GMT+02:00
> To: Don Brearley <donbrearley at hibbing.edu>
> Subject: Re: Wake up time
>
> Good idea. Would work for my setup, my router should be always on.  
> And I think there is a wakeonlan port for FreeBSD.
>
> The advantage of this solution would be that I can trigger a wakeup  
> on very dynamic events. If I set the wakeup time in the BIOS it's  
> rather static, and I have to know the next wakeup before I shut down  
> the host.
>
>
> On Sep 21, 2009, at 23:25 , Don Brearley wrote:
>
>>>>> Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> 09/21/09 4:06 PM >>>
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:06:28PM +0200, Anselm Strauss wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> anybody knows if it's possible to set BIOS wake up time in  
>>> FreeBSD. I
>>> have a machine I would like to regularly shutdown and wake up at
>>> different times depending the on the day of week.
>>
>>
>> Could you enable "Wake-On-LAN" in the BIOS and then configure  
>> another box
>> to wake it up via the LAN at your specified time?
>>
>> - Don
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