Wake On LAN

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:50:00 +0100

Under Ubuntu I chose the following way to activate wake on LAN on the eth0 device:

# Install ethtool
sudo apt-get install ethtool
# Create init script to set the wol bit on the device
sudo vi /etc/init.d/wakeonlan
#!/bin/sh
ethtool -s eth0 wol g
exit
# Make the script executable
sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/wakeonlan
# Create the init links
sudo update-rc.d wakeonlan defaults

Under Debian the following approach has been chosen:

Wakonlan on cat /dev/snapshot

Wake On LAN