Caseless virtualization cluster: Wake On LAN

Wake On LAN (WOL) is a feature where you can send a specially formatted network packet to a machine to wake it up when it is switched off. The on-board network ports of my virtualization cluster should support WOL, and the always-useful ArchLinux Wiki has a guide for how to enable WOL.

$ sudo ethtool p6p1 | grep Wake
	Supports Wake-on: pumbg
	Wake-on: g

By the way the BIOS option for WOL on these Gigabyte motherboards is implausibly called “Onboard LAN Boot ROM” which you have to set to Enabled.

It basically just works once the BIOS option is enabled.

$ sudo wol -i 192.168.0.193 74:d4:35:51:ab:86
$ sudo wol 74:d4:35:51:ab:86
Waking up 74:d4:35:51:ab:86...

Edit: Don’t use the -i option. You want your WOL packets to be broadcast on your LAN.