Synology wake it up on LAN

Synology like any other recent and decent device accepts WakeOnLan . This comes very handy when you don’t want to keep it always on .
Setting synology is pretty easy . Just go to control panel , on Hardware and Power menu from the synology web interface and check Enable WOL on LAN1
wol-synology

However in order to wake it up you need to send in the network the magic packet to wake it.

I found that etherwake does the job right. Since i have eth1 connected to the internal network i’m using it like this:


etherwake -i eth1 00:11:33:22:bb:aa

where 00:11:33:22:bb:aa is the mac address from synology network card.

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