Question regarding etherwake

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sat Oct 25 20:04:03 UTC 2014


Hans Muecke wrote:
> I am using etherwake to wake up one of the lan machines. To do so I
> have set up a script to do that at the same time every day and until
> recently this worked fine.
> 
> The machine that runs this script has 2 nics (eth0 and eth1) and
> because eth0 didn't work flawlessly when changing my router I plugged
> the cable into eth1. Now the script doesn't wake up the other machine
> anymore. Wake-On-Lan still works on the other machine (as I can do so
> from the router), so I was wondering if etherwake has to be
> configured to use a certain nic.

>From the etherwake man page:

| -i ifname  
|  Use interface ifname instead of the default "eth0".


Nils





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