On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Ruben de Groot <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:36:31AM -0700, Peter Steele typed: > > > FUD, read ifconfig(8) > > > > There is no mention of wake-on-LAN in the man page for ifconfig in 7.0. > I'd be interested in seeing if the 8.0 man page has added anything. > > It has: > > wol, wol_ucast, wol_mcast, wol_magic > Enable Wake On Lan (WOL) support, if available. WOL is a > facil- > ity whereby a machine in a low power state may be woken in > response to a received packet. There are three types of > packets > that may wake a system: ucast (directed solely to the machine's > mac address), mcast (directed to a broadcast or multicast > address), or magic (unicast or multicast frames with a ``magic > contents''). Not all devices support WOL, those that do > indicate > the mechanisms they support in their capabilities. wol is a > syn- > onym for enabling all available WOL mechanisms. To disable WOL > use -wol. > > Ruben > I just noticed my 7.2-R i386 PC-Engines ALIX2 board with vr devices show up (WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC) in the ifconfig listing. Seems they're making some of it available in 7.2-RELEASE I'll have to test/try this out, I'm glad I'm starting to see it happen. Thought you'd all like to know. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
