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RN102 - Wakes up every month
Hi all, I have encountered a strange behaviour with my NAS. This is my backup NAS which spends most of its life powered off, but I have Wake on LAN enabled. Looking back through the log, I can ...
Hi robmash, you could disable WOL lets say for about 5 weeks to see, whether "somebody" is waking up your nas on a regular base. If it continues with WOL disabled you would know, that the WOL-hypothesis is not true and could safely consider something else.
Kind regards
Retired_Member wrote:
Hi robmash, you could disable WOL lets say for about 5 weeks to see, whether "somebody" is waking up your nas on a regular base.
Or just disconnect the NAS from your network on July 23rd, and reconnect it on the 25th.
StephenBwrote: "Or just disconnect the NAS from your network on July 23rd, and reconnect it on the 25th."
If robmash would follow this suggestion and the nas will not be woken up, one would know, that something on the network is waking it up, not necessarily WOL, to be a bit pedantic :-). But Stephen's suggestion can be used to improve my initial one in the following way:
Disable WOL on July 23rd and enable it again on the 25th. After excluding, that WOL is the issue, next step could be to disconnect the nas from the network completely for the concerned timeframe in August.
Kind regards
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