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I have a low-end laptop always turned on whose only purpose is to initiate Wake-on-LAN for a second (primary) computer on the same local network, so I can work via remote desktop on this second computer.

Wake-on-LAN is set up and works perfectly by accessing the low-end laptop over the internet to turn on the primary computer - but only when the primary computer shuts off without error. When the primary computer crashes, WOL fails.

I would be grateful if someone knows how to resolve this problem.

studiohack
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Dan Nissenbaum
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wol is not ipmi, you can not control the power input of your pc with it, you just tell the bios to notify the OS of state change. If the OS is crashed it does nothing.

One solution for your problem would be to configure windows for rebooting in case of crash. If your primary computer has a BMC card ( look for message at boot about "BMC Configuration" ) configure it and you will be able to power cycle it via IPMI.

Olivier S
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