WOL Service - Not waking up mac mini and pc tower in SMB office
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I have gone into the network adapter settings for a mac mini Mac OS and a windows 10 pc tower to ensure the correct function feature is enabled for WOL packets to work. In the windows 10 machine, I also went into the BIOS to ensure that it can receive WOL packets.
However, there are times after some weeks over weekend that computers in our office all shut off. I think it is our electrical system having intermittent surges causing the abrupt irregular power offs of computers. Our network infrastructure devices has a UPS so they maintain power.
When I come back in after the weekend I go to the WOL service in pfsense and send magic packets to the MAC address of these two devices on the LAN interface. It never works, thus I have to get my 10 foot ladder and go into the ceiling to manually power both of them on as they are located above the conference room and video wall.
I am just seeking any insight as to how to troubleshoot and resolve this if anyone has had similar experiences with this pfsense service. Thank you.
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Hello!
Lots of variables...
Make sure BIOS AC Recovery option set to POWER ON.
Setup Automatic Power On schedule in BIOS.
Check S4/S5 states in BIOS.
...?John
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John, will scope those variables out, thanks.