WoL Shutdown Problem

[CranialBlaze]

Busy setting up a file server at work and am having trouble with its WoL. Worked fine when I turned it off in the GUI, but when I switched to Command Line it became somewhat of a hit and miss, more miss.

Its using ubuntu 12 and ideally I want to be able to turn it on from my house so have a dyndns setup, firewall rules are correctly configured and even sat monitoring tcpdump on port 9 and every WoL packet I sent arrived, but as soon as I turned it off it I could not get it back on again. I know the DynDNS is working fine as I can tunnel/ftp in without any problems

I am pretty sure its possible to use WoL over the internet, plenty of googleing supports that Idea but it is the first time I am trying it out. I do know if the wrong power state is used on shutdown then WoL is useless, had soem trouble with Win8's new "Fast Boot" feature, something it did made WoL useless, until I found and disabled it.

I have tried "shutdown now" "shutdonw -h now" and "poweroff", "poweroff" seemed to work better.

Anyone have some experience with this, would prefer not to put this pc on a boot schedule in the BIOS.

 

[SirMCDeats]

Strange, WoL enabled in the BIOS? Have you tried "halt" instead of the above listed commands?

Btw - how do you know the WoL packet arrived? As far as I know WoL doesn't really transverse networks that well?

This thread seems to have some useful info.

 

[CranialBlaze]

Strange, WoL enabled in the BIOS? Have you tried "halt" instead of the above listed commands?

Btw - how do you know the WoL packet arrived? As far as I know WoL doesn't really transverse networks that well?

This thread seems to have some useful info.

WoL does work within the network, had even tried it off network once, was on EDGE so the packet took a while to arrive but the machine did turn on.

WoL packets go through port 7 or 9 normally, the app I was using was sending on port 9 so with the machine on you run "tcpdump -i 9" and it will give you a live dump of activity on that specific port, obviously need to install tcpdump first. The target received every packet I sent it when it was on.

Will check that link you sent when I get to work