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    Intel X553 and Wake On LAN support

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      trumee
      last edited by

      Hello,

      I have a Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F motherboard which has X553 based NIC. According to the Supermicro documentation the NIC support Wake on LAN feature and I have enabled it in the BIOS setting. Unfortunately, WoL does not start the bootup as expected.
      The NIC doesnt show the WOL feature:

      $ifconfig ix3
      ix3: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
              options=e500bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
              nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
              media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
              status: active
      

      How can I enable WoL for this NIC?

      In Linux I simply need to do the following:

      $ethtool -s eno1 wol g
      
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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Does it show link when it's in standby?

        Steve

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          trumee
          last edited by

          It is a remote machine to which I have ssh access.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            On machines that support WoL I've never had to do anything special in pfSense. For it to work though it needs to link the NIC, often at some low speed, when it's been shutdown and is in standby. If that's not happening it cannot be woken.

            Steve

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              Setting it via ifconfig ix3 wol (FreeBSD) would only matter if pfSense was putting the device to sleep or a low-power state, which isn't going to happen.

              If the device is powered off, that's entirely between the BIOS and the NIC, nothing to do with the OS.

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