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startup with wol for dedicated server

Started by avvdr, January 17, 2009, 17:32:42

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avvdr

As I boot my MVP from a small NAS device I was searching for an option to connect to a particular server after startup but waking it up before with WOL. Additionally as my master power switches on a lot of devices, I wanted to boot the MVP into standby mode (i.e. not waking up my server each time I switch on power.
With the patches I include here, the vompclient accepts 2 new options:
-e ethaddr - if -s server-ip is also given, use this ethernet address to wake up the server
-o - start in standby mode
To use this you can edit /etc/rcS for the startup command of the vompclient to something like:
/vompclient -o -s 192.168.1.99 -e "00:30:84:25:e9:f8" &

Maybe someone would like to create a tool to also patch the dongle for different startup options...

Regards
Andreas