Comment 9 for bug 71418

I'm suffering from this problem too, but removing the "-i" does not seem to help.

I think this problem might be solved in a different way. What about adding a line (and the requisite parsing) in the /etc/network/interfaces file to configure WoL on/off?

Something like:

/etc/network/interfaces
-----------------------------------------------------
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
wakeonlan $X
-----------------------------------------------------

Where $X is one of:
        p|u|m|b|a|g|s|d...
               p Wake on phy activity
               u Wake on unicast messages
               m Wake on multicast messages
               b Wake on broadcast messages
               a Wake on ARP
               g Wake on MagicPacket(tm)
               s Enable SecureOn(tm) password for MagicPacket(tm)
               d Disable (wake on nothing). This option clears all previous
                  options.
See:
 * http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/en/man8/ethtool.8.html

The if-scripts would then handle sending the appropriate 'ethtool -s eth0 wol $X' command on ifup/ifdown.

I'm happy to write this code if Scott and Alexander can verify the approach.

Also, Alexander asked me in IRC if ethtool could set this value correctly even if the interface is ifconfig'd down. I have verified that the answer is "yes, it can".

:-Dustin