[Discuss] Home NAS redux

[Daniel Hagerty]

Mark Woodward <markw at mohawksoft.com> writes:

> (non-laptop) hardware? I know you can use hdparm for the disk
> spindown, but does "Wake-On-Lan" really work?

    Yes, it does; I have two machines I use it with on a regular basis.
One is a mac, the other is a generic pc from 2005 or so.

    The mac in particular gets woken up on a regular basis by remote
programs.  It's not generally known, but the WoL standard wakeup packet
embeds in UDP without any trouble.