Greetings;

Just got myself a brand new Asus Z790i with an Intel 13900k. Total screamer!

What better thing to do than to try out the Wake-on-LAN NS. Watched the youtube video on how to enable WoL and executed the steps in the BIOS and disabled fast start... (https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1045950/#1)

It is talking to my rig (and to my older Z170i as well), but only to wake them from being asleep, not to wake them from power off. Both are on wired ethernet. Both have their little lights blinking even when the computer is off, indicating that the NIC is on and listening.

I did also download a little WoL app for my Google Pixel. And it does wake them up...

A first question: does the NS actually send what they call a "magic packet"? I tried both settings with and without the magic packed enabled. No dice...

Thanks for your input

 

Edited July 10, 20232 yr by TriLife
added missing information

Yes, it does send the 'magic packet'.  However, the network stack on FreeBSD (Polisy/eisy) is different from most other systems, including a Google Pixel so sending WOL packets from it may not behave the same as other operating systems.

The node server uses a python library called wakeonlan (https://github.com/remcohaszing/pywakeonlan) to generate and send the magic packet'.