[OpenWrt] Wake on LAN configuration

Wake on LAN configuration

The configuration file 

/etc/config/wol

 is >wol package and defines hosts to wake when starting the 

/etc/init.d/wol

 init script. An alternative opkg-package is 

etherwake

Please see 

/etc/crontabs/root

 to configure 

crond

.

Sections

There is only one section type 

wol-target

 defined for the configuration. Multiple wake on lan targets may exist in the file.

Wake on LAN targets

A 

wol-target

 section defines the parameters the wol utility is started with. The init script will start one instance of wol for each sectionof this type.

Below is a listing of the parameters defined for this section.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
mac	MAC address	yes	(none)	Specifies the MAC address of the host to wake
broadcast	IPv4 address or hostname	no	255.255.255.255	Specifies the target address magic packets are broadcasted to
port	integer	no	40000	Specifies the UDP destination port for magic packets
password	string	no	(none)	Send given SecureON password when waking the host
enabled	boolean	no	1	Don't start wol for this section if set to

Example

Example entry to wake a host with the MAC address 

00:06:29:4f:e4:b6

 in the 

192.168.0.0/24

 subnet:

config wol-targetoption mac 00:06:29:4f:e4:b6option broadcast 192.168.0.255option enabled 1

Notes

If wol does not work, the etherwake package can be used instead. To wake a host on boot, and put the following command into 

/etc/rc.local

:

etherwake 00:0f:3d:ce:ef:ee

This would wake the host with the MAC address 

00:0f:3d:ce:ef:ee

.