Question regarding etherwake

Hans Muecke ubuntu-ml01 at filderstadtweather.eu
Sat Oct 25 20:12:43 UTC 2014


Am 25.10.2014 um 20:04 schrieb Nils Kassube:
> 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".
Thanks Nils ...

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Talk to you later ... Hans (328 to go)
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