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General Discussion / Re: Wake-On-Lan of known servers when regular access is attempt.

« on: July 30, 2020, 05:48:37 pm »

Hi fabian,

Thanks for the insight on how this could be done, that clearly makes sense and IMHO an excellent feature to be added in.
I am "no dumb" programmer and would really love to contribute with such a feature in opnsense.

Creating a daemon or even performing wol I should not be difficult.
My problem is that I would have no clue how to monitor traffic, within the daemon.

Will you be able to help, pointing out to documentation to libraries, etc. ?

Thanks

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General Discussion / Wake-On-Lan of known servers when regular access is attempt.

« on: July 30, 2020, 12:02:55 am »

Hello everyone,

Although I have a PhD in computer sciences, I am in no way an expert in networking, so please apologize any stupid questions/suggestions. ;-)
I have a small homelab which most of the time is not really doing anything except idling.
More recently I was considering to suspend those machines when no network traffic would be requested, however just to come to the conclusion that WOL is much less "intelligent" then I initially expected.

My question to you are:
 - Wouldn't it be possible to automatically trigger a WOL when some attempt to a particular machine happens ?
 - Is it currently possible in OPNsense ?
 - I was thinking of some Firewall rule which the outcome would be to trigger a WOL in the middle. Something like that. :-)

Thanks in advance for all your replies.

Regards