wakeonlan from Debian and from the router

Posted by wjl on Oct 12, 2006 12:34 AM EDT
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You probably know this situation: you’re at work, or on holiday, and you need an information from your machine at home. Or you’re at home, you have a working VPN to the company, but your workstation there is switched off. And of course you didn’t rsync whatever you need right at this moment, so…

If the machine still doesn’t want to wake up again, check your /etc/init.d/halt script - they slightly differ from “shutdown -h now” in that they sometimes use additional options. For me - using Debian Etch - this was no problem.

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