RESOLVED - 25.11 - "Wake-on-Lan" display on the main Dashboard problem
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Hello,
I think I've found a small bug with the "Wake-on-Lan" display on the main Dashboard page.
The “Wake-on-Lan” status does not turn “green,” but if I unplug the network cable and plug it back in, it works, but does not remain green after a while.
This problem did not occur with version “25.07.1.”
Have you noticed the same thing?
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The device should show as active there if it's in the pfSense ARP table. So if the device does not send any traffic to pfSense it will time out after ~15mins. That hasn't changed.
Are you seeing devices in the ARP table that are not shown as active there?
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If it's important, you can force the device to be "up" for WoL by enabling the Static ARP Entry setting in the DHCP mapping.
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Thank you for your messages. Today I went to Pfsense and the arrow is indeed “green.”
I've been watching this little arrow ever since I put this information on the home page. It's true that every time I looked at it, it was “green,” but it's also true that I don't connect to my firewall all the time.
It's just that when I was connected to Pfsense, I saw this “red” arrow while I was on this computer (my only one), and I found it surprising, so I removed the network cable and put it back in, and the arrow turned “green.”
I think that's what you explained to me about the “15 minutes.”
Sorry for my false announcement
