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April 4, 2011

The Magic Packet

I've finally decided that I can't live with my home network the way it is any more. The problem I have is that I can't remotely cycle my servers. I need to be able to turn them on and off from a different time zone, and I can't do this, and it's driving me nuts.

There is supposed a solution called "Wake on LAN" (WOL) that involves "magic packets". It is supposedly supported by Windows XP, but the question is whether or not my computers will support waking from an "S5" (Power Off) state.

Posted by Rob Kiser on April 4, 2011 at 11:56 PM

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