Scheduled WOL?

[danswan]

I've got a server in the loft which never gets used between midnight and about 4pm, so I'd like to shut it down between those times. The shutdown part is fine, but there's no scheduled startup in the BIOS of this machine, so I was wondering if there's a way to send a WOL packet on a scheduled basis from the router (N66U running Merlin firmware 3.0.0.4.374.35_4)

 

[Martineau]

I've got a server in the loft which never gets used between midnight and about 4pm, so I'd like to shut it down between those times. The shutdown part is fine, but there's no scheduled startup in the BIOS of this machine, so I was wondering if there's a way to send a WOL packet on a scheduled basis from the router (N66U running Merlin firmware 3.0.0.4.374.35_4)

Schedule a cron job using

ether-wake   -b    -i  br0   xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

where xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is the MAC

 

[danswan]

Thanks for that!