[CUBE] wake on Lan

[Richard Clark]

On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 04:50 PM, Heath Raftery wrote:

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> On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 12:14  AM, Richard Clark wrote:
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>> does anyone know if there is a way to make the cube wake up from 
>> sleep if there is activity over the lan port 80? I am using my cube 
>> as a server but would like it to be able to sleep when no one is 
>> using it and wake up when there is a request. In the prefs somewhere 
>> i remember seeing something about letting the administrator wake from 
>> sleep which i checked. Any Ideas?
>> Richard
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> (Assuming OS X)
> That's System Preferences->Energy Saver->Options->Wake for network 
> administrator access. But... that option is actually equivalent to 
> 'Wake on magic packet' (or womp for those who are into such things). 
> All that enables is, during sleep, the ethernet card is allowed to 
> wake the machine if it receives a 'magic packet' (which a pretty 
> simple packet containing hardware address information and stuff). A 
> request over port 80 is not a magic packet!
>
> In order to serve such non-magic packet requests, you'd be better off 
> letting the machine sleep it's monitor and hard drive, but _not_ the 
> system. This is the way my computer has been set up for a couple of 
> years now, and I find it the best way to ensure maintainance and other 
> scripts are run, and all serving requests are met.
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that is what i do now but if there was a way to make the cube really 
sleep i would be happier less power consumption and also my cheap noisy 
fans would turn off. I don't really know anything about these things. 
I'm am running OSX and i'm using it as a webserver with a couple of 
pages up(this is all new to me) and really would like my cube to really 
sleep until it gets a request to see my pages i'm using apache i think 
it's called and needed to open port 80 for it to work. Is there any way 
i can integrate this magic packet somewhere to make the cube wake up 
when it is needed?
why does the cube turn off the ethernet when it sleeps anyway?