[plug] Wake-on-Lan

[James Budworth]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, James Devenish wrote:

> In message <1094687222.3285.36.camel at Lina.zephilia.net>
> on Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:47:02AM +0800, James Budworth wrote:
> > Broadcast will cause the machine to com back on almost immediately
> > after shutdown.
> 
> I would expect that is exactly the correct behaviour. Broadcast packets
> are pretty common on many networks, so they could be expected to lead to
> spurious wake-on-LAN responses. If you have two computers on your
> network, at least one of them is probably sending out broadcast packets
> periodically, and those are getting picked up by the wake-on-LAN
> feature.

I suspected that that may have been the reason.

> > If I restart the network, the g flag would disappear.
> [...]
> > I may also need to include something in rc.local to make sure the
> > correct setting is maintained, depending on how well it holds if
> > power is lost.
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "restart the network", but in any
> case it sounds like the 'driver' is intentionally setting things to
> its 'factory' defaults. Your rc.local idea sounds like a good
> workaround.

By restart the network I mean, downing the eth device, then bringing it 
back up again.
I also suspected it may have been something to do with the driver.  The 
driver its currently using is 8139too.  I had a look at the driver at www.scyld.com 
however their ftp server isn't responding.  So it seems I'm stuck with my 
current driver.

--
James Budworth