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| Thread ID: 55930 | 2005-03-23 05:24:00 | "Wake up on LAN" | John H (8) | Press F1 |
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| 337015 | 2005-03-23 05:24:00 | I have just replaced my back up computer (it is in another building, on a WLAN) and I want it to wake up when the synchronisation software on my main computer kicks in on its daily schedule - the back up computer goes to sleep during the hours between when I kick it in the guts in the morning and when the backup starts at 5pm. I know there is an option somewhere for "Wake up on LAN" (which I assume will cause this to happen) but for the life of me I cannot find it. All comps running XP Pro. Would someone assist me to enable this feature (assuming that is the best way?). Pretty please? grovel, grovel. Thanks a heap. John |
John H (8) | ||
| 337016 | 2005-03-23 05:26:00 | The option for wake up on lan / modem are usually found in the BIOS of your computer - and little search in their should yield results. Cheers, N |
nicnz (2273) | ||
| 337017 | 2005-03-23 05:35:00 | The option for wake up on lan / modem are usually found in the BIOS of your computer - and little search in their should yield results. Cheers, N You are indeed correct - thank you very much. John |
John H (8) | ||
| 337018 | 2005-03-23 05:36:00 | However it might not work as you want it to do without a bit of extra work. "Wakeup on Ring" can safely start a computer when it receives a phone call, because it's being explicitly addressed by the telephone number. On an Ethernet LAN, you don't "normally" want all computers on the network to start up when there is "any" activity on the network. That WLAN option was built to allow administrators to wake up individual computers to download software updates. So, each such NIC is sitting there waiting to be addressed. Only when it sees itself being talked to will it kick the copmputer into life. It is addressed by a "Magic packet". I think that is just a packet containing repetitions of the NIC's MAC address. (That's the 48-bit unique hardware address, not the 32 (or 128) bit IP address.) Probably "magic packet" to Google will get you lots of information on how to do it, if noone here has done it. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 337019 | 2005-03-23 08:11:00 | there is a good tool called PowerOff (users.pandora.be) It has a WOL option and you can schedule stuff, etc.. |
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