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PeteCress
Jan 06, 2011Apprentice
Wake-On-LAN: Anybody Got It Working?
Seems like WOL is the only game in town for remote recovery from a power failure ==> graceful shutdown in response to UPS. I'm doing something wrong, but don't know what. Using Fusion's "FUSION ...
topo_nas
Feb 01, 2011Aspirant
Last time I tested WOL, my NAS turned on fine, but I hosed my network. It turns out my DirecTV receiver does not like magic packets and until I power it off/on, it was causing the whole network to go down. Maybe in the future I'll get a smart ethernet switch and filter magic packets to the receiver, but for now, no WOL here. :-(
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