Wake On Lan

[OscarL]

Sorry to keep bothering you about this. But it would be a great feature to have WOL working properly as I have the server upstairs in the living room and 2 MVP downstairs for the kids.
Anyway I tested last alpha and I still do not get any delay after the WOL is sent if the server is off.
mvpmc sends ping
then WOL
and then immediately it says "no reply". There is no delay after the WOL until he checks for ping or any other connection. He just quits back to the mvpmc main screen.

Hope I am able to make this clear otherwise please ask and I try to get you a more detailed answer.

[mvallevand]

Sorry to keep bothering you about this. But it would be a great feature to have WOL working properly as I have the server upstairs in the living room and 2 MVP downstairs for the kids.
Anyway I tested last alpha and I still do not get any delay after the WOL is sent if the server is off.
mvpmc sends ping
then WOL
and then immediately it says "no reply". There is no delay after the WOL until he checks for ping or any other connection. He just quits back to the mvpmc main screen.

Hope I am able to make this clear otherwise please ask and I try to get you a more detailed answer.

Could you confirm that you are running the March 22 mvpmc dongle. It is in the About screen on the main menu.

Also have you confirmed that the dongle.bin.config file is actually loading? You can do tell this if you see Connecting to first server or
Connecting to xx.xx.xx.xx ?

Martin

[OscarL]

Yes, it is the March 22 dongle.
Also I am pretty sure that the dongle.bin.config is loading. I can see the ip number (192.168.0.8) when starting up. Also I am able to see different behaviour if I choose wolwt or conwt when the server is up. If I use conwt it will pause before starting the application if the server is up.

Thanks
Oscar

[mvallevand]

Yes, it is the March 22 dongle.
Also I am pretty sure that the dongle.bin.config is loading. I can see the ip number (192.168.0.8) when starting up. Also I am able to see different behaviour if I choose wolwt or conwt when the server is up. If I use conwt it will pause before starting the application if the server is up.

Yes it was my embarrassingly stupid mistake. A new version is now available.

Martin

[OscarL]

Have done some limited tests and it looks alright. I still have some problem when my box don't react to WOL but when that happends I can not wake it up from any other computer so I guess that is something else.
Anyway I think the MVP side of it works now. Thanks!!

/Oscar

[OscarL]

This is realy strange. I thought that WOL was working with dongle from March 22 but now it does not work. The strange things is that the WOL sequence from within the emulation startup seems to hang the server in standby. This is how I tested it.
Turn server on
enter emulation mode
Starts nice and well.

Turn server to standby
Exit emulation mode Go-Back
Enter emulation mode (Pinging, Sending WOL, Ping test 1,2,3....)
No reply and back to mvpmc menu.

If I now telnet into the MVP and executes the /usr/bin/ether-wake command with my servers MAC adress it does not wake up the server.

If I instead manually wake up the server.
Enter emulation mode
Turn server into standby
Telnet into MVP and exexutes /usrbin/ether-wake xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Now it turns on the server.

I have duplicated this many times and it is always like this. Entering emulation mode does not start server but seems to make server deaf for WOL.
On the other hand if I telnet into the MVP without trying to go into emulation mode before, then it is possible to wake the server with WOL.


I do not know how to trouble shoot this any further. Did give ethereal a try but can not see the WOL messages with that, maybe I am doing something stupid, don't know!

Sorry to bothering you about this again

/Oscar

[mvallevand]

I do not know how to trouble shoot this any further. Did give ethereal a try but can not see the WOL messages with that, maybe I am doing something stupid, don't know!

Sorry to bothering you about this again

First of all it's not a bother.

The only way for me to tell is to see more of what is going on. I have uploaded a new file that should output everything necessary to your telnet window.

http://www.mvpmc.org/~mvallevand/mvpmc.zip



To use it,

- save the file in your mvpmc folder you made for loading the config file
- telnet to mvpmc
- issue the command
killall mvpmc
- issue the command
/etc/mvpmc/mvpmc "all your other startup option"

- try and start emulation.

(ctrl-c will kill this mvpmc).

Send me a screen capture. If you have trouble, I suggest using Putty as your telnet client.

Martin

[OscarL]

I run your new binary. Enclosed is a session log from putty.
The log showes first a successful connection when the server is on.
Then it shows a failure when the server is awake. After that I quit mvpmc (ctrl-c) and executes ether-wake manually (no success).
The I start and stop the server and executes ether-wake again - works.

According to the log it looks as if mvpmc does the same as I do manually (do you use ether-wake by the way?)

So either something strange happends when the WOL is executed from inside mvpmc (to close in time to the ping or something) or something happens when the server goes to sleep.

/Oscar

[OscarL]

Some more interesting tests.
Like this

1. Server is on
   
2. Start mvpmc from telnet window
   
3. Server off
   
4. Open second telnet window execute ether-wake - Does not wake
   
5. Turn server on and to standby again
   
6. Run ether-wake from second telnet client - works
   
7. Repeats 5-6 serveral times, works all the times.
   
8. Start server
   
9. Kill mvpmc and restart
   
10. Let server go to sleep
    
11. Try to wake it from second telnet client - does not work.
    
12. Turn server on and to standby
    
13. No I can wake it with ether-wake again

Conclusion After mvpmc has started and the server has gone to sleep with mvpmc in emulation mode I can not wake it up.

This gives you even more head ache or?

[mvallevand]

1 Turn server on and to standby - Now I can wake it with ether-wake again
or
2After mvpmc has started and the server has gone to sleep with mvpmc in emulation mode I can not wake it up.

This gives you even more head ache or?

Actually no. Maybe the problem isn't really related to the mvpmc, it sounds more related to the fact the when gbpvr is running your pc isn't really going into proper sleep mode. This thread will provide some information.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=25609

Note on my machine WOL won't wake my machine from hibernate but it will from standby. Make sure what you do manually matches what is happening on the inactivity timeout in Windows.

Martin