Start Up System - Physical Machine (WOL) not working

Submitted by xtremeservices on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 20:01

Hi Guys,

When in Cloudmin and I select one of my down Physical XEN Hosts from the drop down then click the Start Up System, I receive the following message:

Starting up 10.1.10.15 ..
.. started but a problem was detected : System did not respond to ping after 60 seconds. Perhaps wake-on-LAN is not supported by the BIOS or a network card?

I have verified that WOL = G (Magic Packet) and am able to from the same host that is my master cloudmin server run wol macaddress and the system starts right up.

The server is a quad opteron and takes a minute or two to boot, is the 60 second startup timeout configurable.

I actually tracked down where this is happening and found that if I removed the -i $ip from the line in real-type-lib.pl things worked great.

        #New working
        my $out = &backquote_logged("$cmd ".quotemeta($m).
                                             " 2>&1 </dev/null");

        #Orig not working
        #my $out = &backquote_logged("$cmd -i $ip ".quotemeta($m).
        #                                     " 2>&1 </dev/null");

Not sure why this would be an issue with Centos, I verified this manually too. At least this is an issue with the NICs in several of my servers :

lspci :
03:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

ethtool peth0
Settings for peth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 1
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: g
        Wake-on: g
        Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
        Link detected: yes


cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.6 (Final)

uname -a
Linux gx5.xtsuniverse.local 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5xen #1 SMP Fri Jul 15 08:16:59 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Have you experienced this with centos 5.6 XEN hosts?

~Jeremy

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 23:12

I haven't run into this issue, but I suspect that it depends on your network and BIOS settings. In the next Cloudmin release (5.9) I will have it send the WOL packet with and without the system's IP, to cover both cases.

Also, I will make the ping timeout configurable, instead of always being 60 seconds.

Submitted by xtremeservices on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 00:14

Great thx!

~Jeremy

Submitted by Issues on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 01:22

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.