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Wake On LAN, Green - power adapter

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Chapter 22 Tools 22.6 Wake On LAN Wake On LAN (WOL) allows you to remotely turn on a device on the network. To use this feature the remote hardware (for example the network adapter on your computer) must support Wake On LAN. You need to know the MAC address of the remote device. It may be on a label on the device or in it's documentation. Click Maintenance > Tools > Wake On LAN to use this feature. Note: The NBG-460N can only wake up remote devices that exist in it's ARP table. For the remote device to exist in the NBG-460N's ARP table it should have had a prior connection with the NBG-460N. Figure 169 Maintenance > Tools > Wake On LAN The following table describes the labels in this screen. Table 110 Maintenance > Tools > Wake On LAN LABEL DESCRIPTION Target's MAC Enter the MAC Address of the device on the network that will be powered Address on. A MAC address consists of six hexadecimal character pairs. Wake up Click this to turn on the specified device. The status bar will refresh and indicate either Ready or MAC Address error. If it displays Ready you should check if the remote device has turned on. If the status bar displays MAC Address error it means you may have typed the MAC Address incorrectly. Make sure you are entering it in the correct format. 22.7 Green Green is the energy-conserving feature of your NBG-460N. When the NBG-460N detects no traffic in the network (LAN, WAN and WLAN), it switches to low power mode. The device cannot send or receive packets during this sleep time. It reboots the device after several minutes and starts the cycle again. This feature is enabled by default. NBG-460N User's Guide 281

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Chapter 22 Tools
NBG-460N User’s Guide
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22.6
Wake On LAN
Wake On LAN (WOL) allows you to remotely turn on a device on the network. To
use this feature the remote hardware (for example the network adapter on your
computer) must support Wake On LAN.
You need to know the MAC address of the remote device. It may be on a label on
the device or in it’s documentation.
Click
Maintenance > Tools
>
Wake On LAN
to use this feature.
Note: The NBG-460N can only wake up remote devices that exist in it’s ARP table.
For the remote device to exist in the NBG-460N’s ARP table it should have had
a prior connection with the NBG-460N.
Figure 169
Maintenance > Tools > Wake On LAN
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
22.7
Green
Green is the energy-conserving feature of your NBG-460N.
When the NBG-460N detects no traffic in the network (LAN, WAN and WLAN), it
switches to low power mode. The device cannot send or receive packets during
this sleep time. It reboots the device after several minutes and starts the cycle
again. This feature is enabled by default.
Table 110
Maintenance > Tools > Wake On LAN
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Target’s MAC
Address
Enter the MAC Address of the device on the network that will be powered
on. A MAC address consists of six hexadecimal character pairs.
Wake up
Click this to turn on the specified device. The status bar will refresh and
indicate either
Ready
or
MAC Address error
.
If it displays
Ready
you should check if the remote device has turned on.
If the status bar displays
MAC Address error
it means you may have
typed the MAC Address incorrectly. Make sure you are entering it in the
correct format.