[gentoo-user] Server standby

[gentoo-user] Server standby

[Hung Dang]

Hi all,
I try to set up my server such that it can go to standby state if it has
not been used for a while and can be wake up when there are some events
such as that come keyboard, mouse, or it is great if it can wake up from
LAN request. I try to google for a while and have not found any useful
information.
Any suggestion?

Thanks a lot
Hung

Re: [gentoo-user] Server standby

[Massimo Gengarelli]

AFAIK, waking up from standby is controlled by hardware, you can't
control such events.
As for the WOL (Wake on Lan), you _must_ have an ethernet adapter which
supports it, usually they have a connector that must be linked to the
motherboard. In this way, your ethernet card will be always on and to
wake up your PC you have to send a special packet to the MAC address of
the card.
There are lot of scripts to send such packet, just google it around.


Regards.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:32:58PM -0600, Hung Dang wrote:
> Hi all,
> I try to set up my server such that it can go to standby state if it has
> not been used for a while and can be wake up when there are some events
> such as that come keyboard, mouse, or it is great if it can wake up from
> LAN request. I try to google for a while and have not found any useful
> information.
> Any suggestion?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Hung
> 

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