> Hello. You do not have to leave your laptop running if it has > wake-on-LAN. To check if your laptop supports this, check your BIOS > for settings such as "wake-on-lan", "wake-on-ethernet", "wol", etc. > You can then start your laptop with etherwake or a similar program. > There are many good guides on how to set up WOL on Debian. This is > how I turn on my backup server, which is an old desktop.
I also like to do that, but many of my machines seem to not support it, or at least I haven't been able to use it on many of my machines, even though they appear to support it. What are those good guides on how to set it up for Debian? > I just log into my router and do "etherwake > xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" (the xs are the mac address). I believe that you can do it > from the Internet and avoid logging into an intermediary too. No, those etherwake packets are not IP packets, they're "raw" ethernet packets and are hence not routable over the internet: you can only send them from a machine on the same physical ethernet network. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org