Subject: Etherwake does not wake up a remote machine

From: Wolfgang Klein <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:48:58 +0200

Hello everybody!

I am bit new to Alpine, so please be a bit gentle to me.

I just installed "Alpine extended 3.22.1" and although it is running 
pretty well (as expected!), I am facing a minor problem with the package 
"etherwake": one particular NAS, that has to be wakened sometimes, does 
not respond to its wake up call. Ubuntu, which is running on another 
machine, includes the package "wakeonlan", and the NAS is responding 
very nicely to that command.

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 
needed. But that can not be a long term solution, because it makes 
everything dependent on that Ubuntu machine, which is also supposed to 
be replaced by Alpine some times soon.

Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem? Are there other 
packages available, that can do a WOL call, that I have not found yet 
and that might work?

Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to the NAS itself to make it 
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 
and HUB, so no boundaries need to be crossed.

Many thanks in advance for any hint and help!

Kind regards,

Wolfgang Klein

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From: michael theurl <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:25:15 +0200

Hi Wolfgang,

did you had a look with ether-wake as well  ?
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/12555?__goaway_challenge=cookie&__goaway_id=7ae62f942527476ffb6f90925e940bd6&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2Fhttps://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/12555?__goaway_challenge=cookie&__goaway_id=7ae62f942527476ffb6f90925e940bd6&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F

cheers

Michael

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From: Wolfgang Klein <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 20:44:08 +0200

Hi Michael,

I'm not sure what you want to tell me, but the page that you linked is 
"forbidden".

Regards,

Wolfgang