Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
Ruben de Groot
mail25 at bzerk.org
Wed May 13 11:47:45 UTC 2009
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:36:31AM -0700, Peter Steele typed:
> > FUD, read ifconfig(8)
>
> There is no mention of wake-on-LAN in the man page for ifconfig in 7.0. I'd be interested in seeing if the 8.0 man page has added anything.
It has:
wol, wol_ucast, wol_mcast, wol_magic
Enable Wake On Lan (WOL) support, if available. WOL is a facil-
ity whereby a machine in a low power state may be woken in
response to a received packet. There are three types of packets
that may wake a system: ucast (directed solely to the machine's
mac address), mcast (directed to a broadcast or multicast
address), or magic (unicast or multicast frames with a ``magic
contents''). Not all devices support WOL, those that do indicate
the mechanisms they support in their capabilities. wol is a syn-
onym for enabling all available WOL mechanisms. To disable WOL
use -wol.
Ruben
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