Dell Wake-on-LAN User Manual

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October 2007

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Dell Enterprise Product Group

Contents

Introduction............................................................................................................................... 3 

Definition ............................................................................................................................ 3 
Prerequisites ....................................................................................................................... 3 

Tools ................................................................................................................................................... 3

 

Dell Servers that Support Wake‐on‐LAN ..................................................................... 3 

Supported NICs (Network Adapters) ........................................................................................... 4

 

Supported Operating Systems ........................................................................................................ 5

 

Using WOL after A/C Power Disconnect or with no Operating System (OS) Installed 
(Out‐of‐Box, or D0uninitialized) ........................................................................................... 6
 
Enabling WOL under Microsoft Windows NT 4.0............................................................. 8 
Enabling WOL under Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Microsoft Server 2003 
Family Operating Systems.................................................................................................... 10
 
Enabling WOL under Red Hat Enterprise Linux® versions 4 and later and SUSE® 
Linux Enterprise Server versions 9 and later .................................................................... 12
 
Enabling WOL under Novell® NetWare® 5.x and 6.x .................................................... 14 
 
 

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