I am having the hardest time getting Wake on LAN to work. I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 that is running windows server 2008 R2 Datacenter (thank you dreamspark!). Anyways, I don't use the server enough where I want it running 24/7 so I want to be able to sleep it or hibernate it and wake it up remotely when I need to. The server is connected to a cisco 2900 switch and then to a 2651XM router. I am able to remote into the server and I am sure the networking side is working because I use it all the time.
I put the server into hibernate and I don't know if this makes a difference but the server disappears from the mac address table of the switch while it's in hibernation.
I tried using this program: http://magicpacket.free.fr/
And when I go to receive I can send the wake on LAN packet from my computer and the server does reconize it (while its turned on and running that program), but then once I shutdown or hibernate my server it will not wake up unless I physically turn it on. I can't ping it when it is asleep either. The orange NIC led does blink while its off. Any ideas, what am I doing wrong.
I also did check the box to "allow this device to wake the computer" and I didn't see wake on LAN as a bios setting but I read about pressing CTRL-S on the bootup and that took me to another menu where I enabled wake on LAN.