Now that the server is all set up for WakeOnLan as in this post and we have the IP address and MAC addresses of the headless server all written down, I can now use a programme to send the “magic network packets” to switch on the machine.
Sending “magic network packets” using Windows XP
To send “magic network packets” via a windows machine I use a programme called WOL – Magic Packet Sender which is a great little free-ware utility by Anil Rhemtulla
All you need to do is fill in the Hostname box in settings with the IP address of the server and the MAC address we made a note of and hit the send button to turn on the Headless media server PC.
Sending “magic network packets” using Linux
Using wakeonlan from the repos, and you are on the same network as the computer your tying to wake up, replace 01:23:45:67:89:ab with the headless servers mac address you noted down and via a terminal type.
sudo apt-get install wakeonlan
wakeonlan 01:23:45:67:89:ab
Hello Klight2003,
Thanks, on a related note, I have a computer thats just sitting around my room and I want to turn it into a headless firewall/proxy server maybe even a DHCP server and put it between my modem and router.
I would like to do it with Linux so I don’t’ bog the system down with to much stuff. The only tutorials I can find online are from 2000 and use out dated software.
Can someone point me in the right direction???
Thanks
I have not attempted to set up a proxy server/firewall on my system as yet, but there is a recent post on ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy) On Ubuntu Server 10.04 / Debian 5.0 on HowToForge that may help.