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Freenas Wake On Lan not working

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I would go through the BIOS settings first. I have encountered certain motherboards that have default settings which are not helpful when attempting to WoL. In particular, look for these settings:

  • S5 mode (should be off)
  • ErP or EuP (should be off)
  • PME Wake Up or Wake on PME (should be on)
  • Power on by PCI/PCIe devices (should be on)
  • and obviously Wake-on-LAN

 

Hi,

I just build my first NAS with freenas. Everything is working fine, exept that I can't get Wake On Lan to work.

 

My build:

Mainboard + Onboard CPU: MSI C847MS-E33

RAM: 8GB

Storage: 2x Seagate Barracuda 2TB in Raid 0

I know it's not an optimal build for a NAS (Raid 0, non-ECC RAM,...). But it had to be cheap and low power consuming.

 

More to my problem:

"ifconfig" says that the mainboard is capable of WOL

re0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500        options=82099<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>        capabilities=8399b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>

It's the first time I'm using wake on lan, so I have not really a idea where the problem could be.

I've enabled wol with the comand:

ifconfig re0 wol wol_ucast wol_mcast wol_magic

But after a restart the tool I'm using for wake on lan "WOL2" (http://oette.wordpress.com/wol2/) shows my NAS sometimes as offline or online. And when I'm sending a package nothing happens.

 

I hope someone, who has more experience with freenas, can help me with this problem.

 

 

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I would go through the BIOS settings first. I have encountered certain motherboards that have default settings which are not helpful when attempting to WoL. In particular, look for these settings:

  • S5 mode (should be off)
  • ErP or EuP (should be off)
  • PME Wake Up or Wake on PME (should be on)
  • Power on by PCI/PCIe devices (should be on)
  • and obviously Wake-on-LAN

 

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Wow thank you for your quick reply :)

The option Power on by PCI/PCIe devices was off

 

Thank you very much

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