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Offline netnomad

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could be wol or wake-on-lan part of the core?
« on: January 22, 2012, 02:21:04 PM »
hi roberts,

for several occasions i need wake-on-lan with microcore...
is wol usually part of busybox?
i guess wol is a very tiny tool that needs only few additional bytes...
do you think it is possible to include that pretty basic, fundamental function to the core?
actually i think that wol is so tiny that a new extension is too exaggerated for that function.

thank you for your help.

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Re: could be wol or wake-on-lan part of the core?
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2012, 02:23:15 PM »
We've had ether-wake for several releases, because it is useful indeed ;)

I assume you mean the sender of the wake-up packet. If you mean the setting utility, ethtool is a bit big.
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Re: could wol or wake-on-lan be part of the core?
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2012, 03:57:05 PM »
hi curaga,

thank you for your reply.
i didn't know ether-wake yet, so i will give it a try.
usually wol or wakeonlan is seen as the standard tool, so why did you choose ether-wake?
are there differences or special features about ether-wake you want to mention or share?

ethtool is for the configuration to prepare my own machine that someone else can wake me up, am i right?
wakeonlan or ether-wake is the tool that i can use to wakeup other machines.

thank you for every hint, every advice to ether-wake is welcomed.
« Last Edit: January 22, 2012, 04:01:43 PM by netnomad »

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Re: could be wol or wake-on-lan part of the core?
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2012, 10:41:57 AM »
Why not wol / why ether-wake?

Because ether-wake is in busybox, wol is not.

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ethtool is for the configuration to prepare my own machine that someone else can wake me up, am i right?
wakeonlan or ether-wake is the tool that i can use to wakeup other machines.

Correct.
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.