Wake On Lan

[OscarL]

In both cases I let the server go to sleep manually (me pressing the power switch). The difference is whether mvpmc is running in emulation mode on the mvp.
But I agree, the problem probably lies in my server. Something causes it to "sleep deeper" if it is communicating with mvpmc before it goes to sleep.

[mvallevand]

In both cases I let the server go to sleep manually (me pressing the power switch). The difference is whether mvpmc is running in emulation mode on the mvp.
But I agree, the problem probably lies in my server. Something causes it to "sleep deeper" if it is communicating with mvpmc before it goes to sleep.

Sorry I can't think of too much more, I'm assuming you applied the patch in the thread I linked too earlier, I thought that would be it. The only other option (and I have not tested it) is to use something like this to do a remote shutdown.

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/Shutdown

If you or anyone else has some suggestions let me know.

Martin

[OscarL]

I will do some testing tonight. As you said the last problem I have seen must be connected to my server or maybe network. I have an idea that it can be connected to baudrate or duplex settings of NIC or switch. I am not sure how it is set since my last reinstall. Will check tonigh.
Anyway your last alpha seems great as regard to the general WOL function. I just have to figure out my specific problem.
Thansk for all the help.
Oscar

[OscarL]

Some progress!!
After setting my NIC to 100 mb/s Full Duplex instead of auto negotiate the problem with the deaf server seems to be solved.

It works well now to wake up the server by just entering emulation mode again. However when powering on/off the mvp the server won't wake up on WOL. If I then telnet into the mvp I can wake the server by manually issuing the ether-wake command.
As far as I can see the browser.config contains the MAC adress of the server (00:13:d3:ad:47:3d) so I am not sure where the problem is.

I have enclosed the browser.config file if you wan't to take a look.

Thanks
Oscar

[mvallevand]

I have enclosed the browser.config file if you wan't to take a look.

That file looks fine, what I really need now is the output from /etc/mvpmc/mvpmc The debug code that was in the oscar.zip file is now in the debug baseline code mvpmc.zip

Martin

[OscarL]

Can you elaborate a little more about this test. Where can I find the mvpmc.zip.
I did try to run the mvpmc from oscar.zip, problem is that the I want to see what's happening when I power on/off the MVP. When I do that after starting mvpmc from telnet window, the mvpmc does not load again. Is that due to the telnet connection breaking up or?

EDIT, Found the location of the mvpmc.zip on your homepage. Question remains though how to log what's happening after I switch mvp on/off with the remote

Oscar

[mvallevand]

Can you elaborate a little more about this test. Where can I find the mvpmc.zip.
I did try to run the mvpmc from oscar.zip, problem is that the I want to see what's happening when I power on/off the MVP. When I do that after starting mvpmc from telnet window, the mvpmc does not load again. Is that due to the telnet connection breaking up or?

EDIT, Found the location of the mvpmc.zip on your homepage. Question remains though how to log what's happening after I switch mvp on/off with the remote

Sorry I forget that I load mvpmc from my NAS. You would have to mount another machine and run this mvpmc from it so that mvpmc and telnet continue to run during the power off.

Martin

[OscarL]

Ah, of course. Didn't think of that. What about what happends when I turn the MVP on/off will that work anyway?

[mvallevand]

Ah, of course. Didn't think of that. What about what happends when I turn the MVP on/off will that work anyway?

Yes, when you power off the MVP you still will be able to run mvpmc from a share.

It is best to think of mvpmc as a very robust shell to many other programs including emulation mode. When you hit the power off button, all these running programs are killed, but the mvpmc task continues to run. When you telnet to your mvp you can see all the processes that are running and when it is in power off state you see just the one.

Note that if you are starting mvpmc from telnet if you kill the machine that telnet is actually running on you could stop the mvpmc process depending on the client. This happens with putty but not with the windows telnet client.

Martin

[OscarL]

Mounted /etc/mvpmc on another server (i.e not the gbpvr server but a server that is on 24/7). Started you debug mvpmc binary from that share and piped the output to a logfile there.

Now everything works well. I can power on/off the mvp and wake up the gbpvr server by that. Wake on lan seems to work everytime.

Why does it work now. What is the difference compared to run the latest alpha dongle from the gbpvr server?

/Oscar