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Subject: Re: Etherwake does not wake up a remote machine
From: michael theurl <michael.theurl@smog.io>
To: Wolfgang Klein <klein.wolfg@web.de>,
  ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:25:15 +0200
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Hi Wolfgang,

did you had a look with ether-wake as well  ?
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/12555?__goaway_challe=
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r=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2Fhttps://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/ap=
orts/-/issues/12555?__goaway_challenge=3Dcookie&__goaway_id=3D7ae62f9425274=
76ffb6f90925e940bd6&__goaway_referer=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F

cheers

Michael


On Sun, 2025-08-24 at 09:48 +0200, Wolfgang Klein wrote:
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> Hello everybody!
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> I am bit new to Alpine, so please be a bit gentle to me.
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> I just installed "Alpine extended 3.22.1" and although it is running=20
> pretty well (as expected!), I am facing a minor problem with the
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> "etherwake": one particular NAS, that has to be wakened sometimes,
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> not respond to its wake up call. Ubuntu, which is running on another=20
> machine, includes the package "wakeonlan", and the NAS is responding=20
> very nicely to that command.
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> The quick and dirty "solution" I came up with is to automatically ssh
> into Ubuntu and call the command "wakeonlan" there, when the NAS is=20
> needed. But that can not be a long term solution, because it makes=20
> everything dependent on that Ubuntu machine, which is also supposed
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> be replaced by Alpine some times soon.
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> Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem? Are there other=20
> packages available, that can do a WOL call, that I have not found yet
> and that might work?
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> Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to the NAS itself to make it=20
> respond to Alpine's "ether-wake". All three machines (Alpine, Ubuntu,
> NAS) are part of the same network and are connected to the same
> router=20
> and HUB, so no boundaries need to be crossed.
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> Many thanks in advance for any hint and help!
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> Kind regards,
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> Wolfgang Klein
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