Wake On Lan question - not too important

matefon · Nov 28th 2019, 7:09am

Hello,
My network card supports Wake On G. Can I enable Wake On 'ping'? (I don't t know what is the exact name of it).

Greetings,
M

cabrio_leo · Nov 28th 2019, 8:25am

Here is a link to a website which explains what to do and the several WOL options. Wake on LAN unter Linux It is in German, but I hope you can online translate it or find a similar web page in English.

For me it should be the option "p" (Wake on PHY activity). I didn´t see an option only for ping.

matefon · Nov 28th 2019, 10:06am

Yes, I meant Wake On p...

But the question is, can I do it? When I check what could be enabled there's nothing else except g.

cabrio_leo · Nov 28th 2019, 7:18pm

matefon wrote:

When I check what could be enabled there's nothing else except g.

Did you check with ethtool <lanport>, as suggested in my link? If the result is only "g" for wake-on-lan-support, then only MagicPacket is supported by your NIC and can´t be changed.

macom · Nov 28th 2019, 8:22pm

Why don't you use Wake on MagicPacket?

I could imagine that Wake on PHY activity will wake your NAS even if you don't want to.

matefon · Nov 29th 2019, 4:36pm

I have a Synology NAS at home and it wakes up when I try to access it. At least it stops the HDD and fans when it is not used for 20 mins.

If wake on p wouldn't work, how can I do that? (Stop the vents, all the processes and the HDD, but if I open the share in file manager or browser the NAS starts these again.)

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