On Monday July 30 2001 09:24, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > I am setting up a machine to do firewalling/IP masquerading. I'd like to > be able to leave this machine on all the time, but perhaps in a > powered-down mode, so it's not using as much electricity, and not so noisy > at night. I envision it in standby or suspend mode, but waking up > whenever someone on my internal LAN wants to access the internet. > 1) Is this possible? > 2) What would be the steps to go about setting linux up for wake-on-lan > access? > > thanks
I haven't done this myself, but you might want to look at the APM support in the Linux kernel. I think there is either a power howto or an APM howto. I remember reading about this when I was researching ways to enable suspend on my laptop. I think it's doable. HTH, Andy
