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Hello I have a VERY irritating problem. Everything time I turn off my NAS unit it just starts up again. After 3-4 sec. I have disk sleep turned off and auto standby schedule off. Anyone?????? Now I have to turn it off and quickly plugg the AC adapter.....
Thank you all for quick replays. So I can't have booth jumboframes and WoL activated.????? I hope a fix is comming for that matter.....I really need booth
Nope. WoL + jumbo frames = instant wake up after shutdown. Netgear deemed this known issue, as recorded by my own open support case, as low priority and didn't feel it worthy to put it in the "known issues" section of 6.4.1 release notes.
The issue identified by the support case will only occur if you have actively changed the MTU from 1500 to 9000. If you haven't changed the MTU, then your case is different to mine. Go to "Network" and have a look at your MTU. If it's 1500 and your box doesn't stay shutdown, it is a new issue. If it is above 1500, change it back to 1500 by clicking on the cog and reboot and see if a shutdown stays shutdown.
The below is a screenshot of my working legacy Ultra6 with jumbo frames (for illustration purposes), which works fine. My RN102 doesn't work with WoL and Jumbo frames and has an MTU of 1500.
1985 is a very strange value. It certainly should not have been set to that.
"MTU" stands for "maximum transmission unit". The value should be matched to the maximum packet size your network (e.g. your switch and router) can carry (taking into account the max packet size your PC NIC cards can receive). There are ways to test this - the most common is to use a utility called ping. If you google MTU and ping you'll find several guides.
The standard value for ethernet is 1500 bytes, and that is the NAS default.
9000 bytes is common for jumbo frmes, though some laptops in particular need smaller values. Sometimes enabling jumbo frames will improve performance, but in other cases it will actually hurt performance.
The reason it is inconsistent is that jumbo frames don't change the raw speed of your network. What they do is reduce the packet rate (larger packets mean that you send fewer of them). For some devices that reduces the CPU usage, but that is not always the case.
Hello again. I need further assistance. I've changed the MTU to 1500. But still if WoL is activated in admin GUI it still power on after a full system shutdown. It has to do something with the WoL activated part. The funny thing is that this issue/bug appeared a few firmares ago . Before the bug I've used the NAS unit for maybe two years with zero issues. I have not changed anything else except starting to use NFS instead of Samba. Any thoughts??? Thanks Henrik Sweden
