Why "wake on LAN" feature fails to remain persisten across reboots on certain"HP t6XX" thinkclient system with "r8169" based NIC in RHEL6?
Issue
- We see that Wake-on-lan feature fails to remain persistently active after reboot though the underlying NIC indicates that it is active on the interface.
- On the system we see following status for the
Wake-on-lanoption on the NIC:
# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbg <<--
Wake-on: g <--
Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
drv probe ifdown ifup
Link detected: yes
- It only remains persistent after defining
ETHTOOL_OPTS="-s eth0 wol gparameter in the interface configuration.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.6.
- HP T6XX thinclients systems.
RTL8111/8168/8411PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
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