[K12OSN] WOL for thin clients

Barry Cisna brcisna at eazylivin.net
Fri Jan 26 21:32:28 UTC 2007


Hi agian Petre,

OK if you have Wake on Lan enabled in bios you are good for a ether-wake
instruction.
On your server make sure your iptables are shut off,( for testing purposes).
 '  service iptables stop  '
Now boot a couple clients and pause them after you see the MAC address at
starting boot. Write down a couple mac addresses.
On the server via vnc or NX or console as root in a terminal type the
following
'  ether-wake -D < mac address > '
the "-D" isnt necessary,though,(only for debugging)
example, you see your MAC/ hardware address is 00:11:22:33:44:55

ether-wake -D 00:11:22:33:44:55

with the -D option you'll see the hex numbers being sent to the client
machine's Mac address.

your client should arise from the dead,,,:)
try witha newer laptop that has WOL enabled on it for testing purposes so
you know a router or something is not killing the " magic" packet.
Hope this helps. This works flawlessly providing you do have WOL on each
client. How old are the clients you are testing? Im wondering if say
version 1 of WOL may be dodgey?If these are old old client machines.

Let us know.

Barry Cisna
westcentral school




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