Does anyone know why...

[slucky]

..my computer powers up by itself when I enable Wake-on-LAN on my system?

I am using Linksys LNE100TX NIC with KT7-RAID motherboard.

 

[yoyo25]

wake-up on lan...hint hint

 

[slucky]

LAN is clean. No magic packets being sent...

 

[Vegito]

Actually, I had 4 machines to test on my lan, when pcanywhere broadcast a .255 search, it turn on all the machines that had wol on it... so someone else on your lan is tripping it up.. it could be another program that sends a broadcast packet instead of the wol packet..

 

[slucky]

The thing is that I have only two computers on my home LAN. And all 2 of them are off when the one that has WOL turns itself on. The only other thing on the LAN is the Netgear RT314 router.

 

[shadow]

lol, thats it, da router.

 

[slucky]

What do you mean?

 

[shadow]

unplug your computer completely from the network, it should not boot up then. the router will make broadcasts, which wake up your system....

 

[slucky]

Well, it doesn't when I unplug it... However, the point is how do I fix the problem with WOL-enabled computer connected to the LAN. If it's not on the network, then, of course, there's no problem...

 

[slucky]

Anyone?

 

[slucky]

Common, guys! I know I'm not the only one having this kind of problem. Please, share you thoughts.

 

[slucky]

I guess it's the wrong forum to ask...

 

[Chatterjee]

Well,

Although I don't know the answer to your problem, I think you may have some luck posting your message in the arstechnica.com forums. They recently opened up a networking messageboard.

Just a thought... though I think the Anandtech forums are fantastic.

Question on the side: What's the point of WOL in the first place?

-S

 

[fargus]

Unless you need the PC to power up so you can access it from another station, turn the Wake on LAN feature off.

Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this..."
Doctor: "Then stop doing that!"