Dell Wake-on-LAN User Manual
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October 2007
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Dell Enterprise Product Group
a. To enable wake up types other than Magic Packet, check the ethtool
man pages.
4. Send a Magic Packet wake up signal to the MAC address of the WOL
enabled NIC, and the system will boot.
Note: If the system boot is interrupted before the OS and the NIC driver are loaded, the
system will not be able to perform WOL again until either the system is rebooted
manually and the OS and driver are allowed to load and reset the NICs WOL registers,
or A/C power to the system is removed for at least 30 seconds, resetting the NIC’s WOL
registers.