There is no need to care especially about WakeOnLan in MultiMac. If the drivers don't touch the registers, everything is fine. Fortunately, WakeOnLan works on BIOS level and is similar to WakeOnKeyboard. There are only few points:
1.) Some computer manufacturer sells their machines with power off=S5 to meet certain green terms. Swich this back to S3.
2.) OSes have the possibility to mix this up. Windows (what else) will do this by change the registers of network cards to not listen to magic packets.
So you have to configure the card driver to set the network card back to listening. There are some rare Linux distributions that do this too, but the major part does switch WakeonLan back on at shutdown.
3.) There are some network cards with especially no WakeOnLan (e.G some 3Com), that can't be turn. If in doubt, read the manual of the Card.
WakeOnLan standards specifies a password for magic packets. Some network cards can be set to check a WakeOnLan-passwort before waking up the computer. I don't know which card uses this, nor how the password can be set. If you have such card, the password goes to the variable G (default 0x000000000000) in the same manner like the variable X.
The Mac can be found with the command line: arp -a
To say this clear:
This little rexx script is just a finger exercise and have no copyright value in my point of view, so I gave no copyright disclaimer. Feel free to use it.
As usual for WakeOnLan, you are not sticked to eCs- computers. Also Windows-, Linux- and MAC- driven computers can be awakened. Even non-computer systems can be switched on (If they know about WakeOnLan). In my case, I wrote this to switch on my satellite receiver from my eCs-Box ;)
Andy
1.) Some computer manufacturer sells their machines with power off=S5 to meet certain green terms. Swich this back to S3.
2.) OSes have the possibility to mix this up. Windows (what else) will do this by change the registers of network cards to not listen to magic packets.
So you have to configure the card driver to set the network card back to listening. There are some rare Linux distributions that do this too, but the major part does switch WakeonLan back on at shutdown.
3.) There are some network cards with especially no WakeOnLan (e.G some 3Com), that can't be turn. If in doubt, read the manual of the Card.
WakeOnLan standards specifies a password for magic packets. Some network cards can be set to check a WakeOnLan-passwort before waking up the computer. I don't know which card uses this, nor how the password can be set. If you have such card, the password goes to the variable G (default 0x000000000000) in the same manner like the variable X.
The Mac can be found with the command line: arp -a
To say this clear:
This little rexx script is just a finger exercise and have no copyright value in my point of view, so I gave no copyright disclaimer. Feel free to use it.
As usual for WakeOnLan, you are not sticked to eCs- computers. Also Windows-, Linux- and MAC- driven computers can be awakened. Even non-computer systems can be switched on (If they know about WakeOnLan). In my case, I wrote this to switch on my satellite receiver from my eCs-Box ;)
Andy