wol trouble

[yanqc]

hI guys,

I received my intel expi9301ctblk in the mail two days and I can't turn on my server from my plex or trying to reach it's ip address from my browser. I would like it to automatically turn on when a user tries to access it.


- Weirdly, when I use an application called WakeMeOnLan to wake it up from my pc, it works. But it won't work from the browser.
- Bios PCI-E and PCI are set to power turn on.
- LAN option set to autoselect and WOL_Magic, shows full duplex in ifconfig

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$ ifconfig
em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=4219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO>
	ether 68:05:ca:2b:ec:4d
	inet 192.168.2.150 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
	inet6 fe80::6a05:caff:fe2b:ec4d%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 
	inet 192.168.2.155 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
	nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
	media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
	status: active
ipfw0: flags=8801<UP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 65536
	nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
	options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb 
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

Thank you for your input

[ChriZathens]

AFAIK such thing is not possible...
You first have to send the magic packet using a program like wakemeonlan and then, after it boots, access the webui and/or shares...
I might be wrong, though...




LATER EDIT: Unfortunately i was not much help, but perhaps you can help me by posting your nas4free version and the output of

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dmesg | grep em0

[yanqc]

Awww, thank you. I was hoping I could just click on my network location on my pc or while starting Plex on other devices they would send the necessary signal to turn my server on.

I'm on embedded NAS4Free 9.3.0.2 (1310)

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$ dmesg | grep em0
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.3.8> port 0xdc00-0xdc1f mem 0xfeae0000-0xfeafffff,0xfea00000-0xfea7ffff,0xfeadc000-0xfeadffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3
em0: Using MSIX interrupts with 3 vectors
em0: Ethernet address: 68:05:ca:2b:ec:4d

[ChriZathens]

Specifically for plex, there might be an add-on that is able to do this...
E.g I use xbmc and there is a wol add-on which can be configured to run when xbmc starts.
So for example, if your xbmc plays files from a NAS, it will wake the NAS when it is starting.
See if something similar exists for Plex

P.s.: thanks for dmesg

[yanqc]

thank you for the clear answers.

Seems like my solution lies in flashing my router to a DD-WRT firmware and creating a VLAN as suggested here : https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/ ... -location/

[ChriZathens]

Cool, then... As long as your router supports DD-WRT you are good to go..