gtk-rekey-failure: A failure of a GTK rekey operation will cause the device to wake up.For more details see The content of the magic packet can be extended with the wifi.wake-on-wlan-password option to require the client to send a specific byte sequence functioning as a password so that not anyone unprivileged can wake up the system. The magic packet has the same structure as the one used for Wake on LAN. magic: Wake on WLAN is enabled and only a received magic packet will cause the system to wake up.disconnect: If a connection to a station gets disconnected the device will be woken up.any: Wake on WLAN is enabled and any possible trigger will cause the system to wake up.disabled (default): Wake on WLAN is disabled for all wireless network devices.This configuration option accepts the following values: If you want to change it just for a single wireless connection take a look at Per Connection Configuration below. See Managing snap configurationfor more details.īoth configuration options will affect all wireless network devices. To allow users to enable or disable WoWLAN, the snap provides two configuration options:īoth options can be set via the configuration API snaps provide. You can read more about the kernel side implementation on the following sites: If it is has support for WoWLAN it may only support a subset of possible triggers.
Mac wake on lan client driver#
The NetworkManager snap allows its users to configure one or more triggers to allow the device it operates on to be woken up remotely.Īn important precondition for WoWLAN to work is that your device’s kernel WiFi driver has support for it. The functionality is not entirely equivalent to Wake on LAN and there are some limitations. It is based on the well well-established standard for Wake on LAN.
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Wake on WLAN (called WoWLAN in the following) is a feature which allows a device to be woken up from standby power states to facilitate device management.