https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218579

--- Comment #64 from Keve Nagy <freebsd....@nagykeve.e4ward.com> ---
No problem. To clarify, I was not talking about crashes either. You mentioned
that after a successful WOL, when you shut your computer down, it did not stay
powered off, instead moments later it automatically started. That is an
automated start-up you did not expect. In other words, unexpected.
Again, I experienced no such phenomena. When I issued a "shutdown -p", my test
computers always powered down properly and always stayed off. Regardless of how
they were started up in advance, manually by their power button or woken by
magic packet.
To further clarify, they also properly powered down and stayed turned off if I
sent WOL magic packets to them while they were on, even if it was moments
before "shutdown".
However, I did not test the particular case when a WOL magic packet is sent to
the computer WHILE it is already in the process of shutting down.

None of my tests were performed on -STABLE or -CURRENT branch. I only tested on
-RELEASE. The experience now was the same on 13.3R and 14.0R. With my previous
set of tests, WOL only woke the computer if it was shut down from a bge-pached
13.2R kernel, and did not wake it when it was shut down from a bge-patched
14.0R. In that sense, the latest patches are better.

My problem was that the bge-based computer could not be woken up once it was
powered down. With these patches, they wake up exactly as expected, on 13.3R
and on 14.0R too. So the problem I had, is now fixed. I don't really care that
WOL_MAGIC is automatically enabled and that I do not need to run an "ifconfig
bge0 wol". The em0 in my Optiplex does exactly the same. I would call THIS the
expected behaviour. Others may disagree.

I can do more tests in May, if needed.

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