On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Paul de Weerd <we...@weirdnet.nl> wrote:
> I've been playing with WoL recently and found that my desktop machine
> (a Dell Optiplex 9020) can be woken up from another OpenBSD machine on
> the same network with `doas arp -W ${MAC} em1` (where ${MAC} is the
> mac address of my desktop machine). As I'm using softraid full disk
> encryption, this doesn't help too much - I still need to be present to
> unlock the crypto volume manually.
>
> Figured I try waking the machine up from sleep mode. This machine
> suspends fine with zzz, and also wakes perfectly from sleep by pushing
> the power button (included dmesg contains one suspend / resume cycle).
> However, in suspended state, I can't wake up the machine with the
> magic packet.
>
> Reading up on the topic of WoL shows a field full of rabbit holes.
> Does anyone know if it is possible at all to do this with OpenBSD?
> I'm guessing the NIC should be left in a state that allows it to wake
> the rest of the machine when entering suspend - perhaps that's not
> done on purpose because it's not wanted. Can anyone shed some light
> on this matter?
If I understand you correctly, have you tried enabling WoL via ifconfig?
