Etherwake configuration

The configuration file /etc/config/etherwake is provided by the etherwake package and defines hosts to wake when starting the /etc/init.d/etherwake init script. An alternative opkg-package is: wol.

Please see /etc/crontabs/root to configure crond.

Web interface for etherwake, install via

opkg install luci-app-wol

There are two sections setup and target defined for the configuration. Multiple wake on lan targets may exist in the file.

config 'etherwake' 'setup'
	option 'pathes' '/usr/bin/etherwake /usr/bin/ether-wake'
	option 'sudo' 'off'
	option 'interface' ''
	option 'broadcast' 'off'

Below is a listing of the parameters defined for this section.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
`pathes`	path	???	(none)	path to etherwake binary (typo is normal)
`sudo`	boolean	no	`off`	Etherwake usually requires sudo
`interface`	string	yes	(none)	On which interface to send the WOL packages
`broadcast`	boolean	no	`off`	???

config 'target'
	option 'name' 'example' 	 # name for the target
	option 'mac' '11:22:33:44:55:66' # mac address to wake up 	
	option 'password' 'AABBCCDDEEFF' # password in hex without any delimiters
	option 'wakeonboot' 'off'	 # wake up on system start, defaults to off

Below is a listing of the parameters defined for this section.

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
`name`	string	no	(none)	name of the target
`mac`	MAC address	yes	(none)	Specifies the MAC address of the host to wake
`password`	string	no	(none)	Send given SecureON password when waking the host
`wakeonboot`	boolean	no	`off`	Don't send WOL packet when booting OpenWrt

config 'etherwake' 'setup'
	option 'pathes' '/usr/bin/etherwake'
	option 'sudo' 'on'
	option 'interface' 'eth0.2'
	option 'broadcast' 'on'

config 'target'
	option 'name' 'popeye'
	option 'mac' '00:22:33:44:55:66'
	option 'password' 'AABBCCDDEEFF'   # password in hex without any delimiters
	option 'wakeonboot' 'off'

# Syntax
/etc/init.d/etherwake start <target>
 
# Wake up "popeye"
/etc/init.d/etherwake start popeye

Etherwake configuration

Web interface

Sections

Setup

Target

Example

Wake target