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I vaguely recall wake on lan actually worked with macs... but when powered on by an airport/airport extreme. I might be wrong.
by m463 4mo ago
I vaguely recall wake on lan actually worked with macs... but when powered on by an airport/airport extreme.
I might be wrong.
- dcrazy 4mo agoYou’re thinking of the Bonjour sleep proxy. Normally if you tried to ssh to `mymac.local`, but your Mac was asleep, nothing would respond to the mDNS broadcast for `mymac.local`. If it had been long enough that your local mDNSResponder cache had expired, you’re out of luck. The AirPort would take over for your Mac and respond to mDNS queries on behalf of its hostname. (I believe it would also repeat the service records.) So your lookup of `mymac.local` would resolve to your Mac’s last IP address, and the AirPort would send the WoL packet to your Mac’s MAC, hopefully in time for your TCP connection to succeed.
- duskwuff 4mo agoWake-on-LAN works fine, but only wakes the machine from sleep. It won't boot a machine that's fully powered off.
- butvacuum 4mo agodepends on the implementation. which kind of embodies why WoL is so useless.
- victorbjorklund 4mo agoWe are of course talking about the Mac implementation