The main use case I and my friends have for this is on our home networks. These are (currently) all a single ethernet and 802.11a/b/g/n networks. If it just works for ethernet that would be sufficient but sending the magic packet from wifi onto the ethernet (where the "sleeping server" is) should work too.
For Windows, Mac and Linux machines this already works just fine. Using a wakeonlan program or in somecases with Windows just accessing a CIFS share causes the machine to wake up. The idea here is that the NAS server show power down to S3 when not in use - which is a very large amount of the time in some case - this saves even more power (and noise!) than spinning down disks, cpu being clocked down. For Ubuntu see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=234588 Which basically says 'ethtool -s eth0 wol g' is how to enable it. For FreeBSD see: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan The lack of this feature means that OpenSolaris as a home server is deficient in networking terms compared to Windows, Linux, MacOS and BSD too. The fact that other operating systems have it and you get useful information on the first google hit for "wakeonlan <someosname>" suggests to me that lots of people really want to use this. I don't know if there is much interest in this in a datacentre but for home networks it is very useful. -- Darren J Moffat -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
