[SLUG] Wake on Lan

[Martin Webb]

BTW, there is no other setting in the BIOS mentioned apart from S1 and 
S3 - no Suspend Disabled, or anything like that - just Suspend Some, or 
Suspend a Lot.
Martin


Martin Webb wrote:
> Fintan Gaughan wrote:
>> Has any body done this? I am able to wake my computer up within the
>> home network but not able to wake the computer up over the internet.
>> Is this possible to do this over internet?
> 
> I've probably got this totally wrong, so please put me right somebody, 
> (and I'm taking into account the site mentioned by Mike, as well as 
> postings subsequent to Fintan's):
> 
> but I thought WOL was from a dormant, or suspended state - not from 
> completely OFF (like you'd normally have to press the big button on the 
> front of the case to make things start, if WOL didn't work).
> 
> Several machines I deal with, including two very recent and fairly 
> pricey ones, have the usual Power Management area in BIOS, and there are 
> two choices for suspend - S1 and S3 - S3 being the most complete, 
> suspending to RAM and even closing down the CPU, as well as HDD, etc.
> 
> A machine I'm using at home as a webserver is set to S1, and indeed 
> comes out of S1 Suspension for a LAN event (or indeed anyone coming in 
> from WAN with the website address).  The WAN calls are port forwarded 
> through the router to the webserver (this has to be set up in the 
> router), and up jumps the server.  I'm experimenting with S3 this evening.
> 
> Other BIOS settings on the Power Management page are also needed - I'll 
> detail those if anyone is interested.  I'm guessing that this PC would 
> do all the WOL stuff because it has the WOL settings in BIOS, and the 
> NIC is integrated in the mainboard.
> 
> Awaiting being put right.
> 
> Martin
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