Standby & wake on lan -problem

[matheisk]

I'm running a web server on my Win XP SP1 machine. To enable waking of the computer from standby by requesting a web page on the web server, I've set NIC Power Management option to "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby."

This works fine, only now my problem is that the computer resumes from standby by itself in every few minutes even when there is no network traffic between the computer and internet.

If I unplug the computer's network cable from the external adsl modem, the computer won't resume from standby by itself, but obviously neither can the computer be connected from internet.

Or if I change NIC Power Management options to "Only allow management stations to bring the computer out of standy.", the computer won't resume from standby by itself, but needs a magic packet to wake up. However the magic packet -scenario is not implementable in my case.

Could it be that the network traffic between the computer and the external adsl modem is causing the computer to wake up? If so, how can that be avoided other than using the ways described above? Or is there some other source that is triggering the NIC to wake up the computer?

 

[linney]

I had something similar but also different the other day when on dial-up I forgot to disconnect after a session. I returned a couple of hours later and found this machine still connected to the Internet. I was surprised because I have "Idle Disconnect" set for 30 minutes.

I assumed this is a useless setting nowadays because of all the various packets bombarding any Internet connection from your ISP or other less savory sources.

 

[Wishdiak]

matheisk,

This works fine, only now my problem is that the computer resumes from standby by itself in every few minutes even when there is no network traffic between the computer and internet.

Are you certain that there is no network traffic? I wouldn't be suprised if that ADSL modem sends some type of packet down the wire once a minute or so.

Is there a compelling reason why you want the webserver in standby mode, rather than just leaving it on and turning the monitor off?

Wishdiak

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