Re: Wake on Lan Issues

[Joseph Garcia <bsd_usr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm....I guess no one here uses the WOL utilities from pkgsrc? Bummer.

Joseph Garcia wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I'm trying to use DragonFlyBSD to wake up other machines, but so far two 
> of the utilities I tried from pkgsrc didn't work. I hate saying this, 
> but they do wake up when I send the magic packet from a Windows machine 
> using either AMD's magic_pkt program or this other program called mc-wol 
> (or something like that - I had renamed it to wol).
>
> Anyway, I tried net/wol and net/wakeup but neither worked. I was 
> wondering if anyone can reproduce this behavior with machines on thier 
> network. Those two programs compile fine, but they just don't seem to 
> work for me.
>
> On a bright note, I configured my DragonFlyBSD box to WOL. Yay! 
> Although, I have to wake it from a Windows box for now until I can 
> figure out what's up with WOL utilities on DragonFlyBSD.
>
> Well, any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joey