Dell GX110's powering on automatically

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I have several Dell Workstations in my environment and of
those I have several GX110 Workstations. The workstations
have 3Com 3C920 NICs in them. The situation is this,
after about 1/2 hour (sometimes more, sometimes less)
after the computer is shutdown from Windows 2000 SPK3, the
computers, power on and boot up. I do have WOL enabled
within the BIOS, and I also have automatic power on
disabled within the BIOS. So far I am unable to find
anything on the internet concerning this. So I'm looking
for a little direction. Why is this happening. Am I off
track by thinking the computers are being woken up by LAN
signals? I looked througout the registry within windows
and I don't see anything that specifies the computer to
power on after a shutdown. And since WOL uses several
different ports I cannot track it down so easily. The
drivers for the card are up to date and the BIOS is the
most recent. If there is an issue with WOL, which is
something I want in place, I'm not looking to sacrafice
it, is there a sniffer utility (preferably free/shareware)
that I can use to sniff out the possible source of the WOL
packets? Any other ideas or hints would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!
 
I have several Dell Workstations in my environment and of
those I have several GX110 Workstations. The workstations
have 3Com 3C920 NICs in them. The situation is this,
after about 1/2 hour (sometimes more, sometimes less)
after the computer is shutdown from Windows 2000 SPK3, the
computers, power on and boot up. I do have WOL enabled
within the BIOS, and I also have automatic power on
disabled within the BIOS. So far I am unable to find
anything on the internet concerning this. So I'm looking
for a little direction. Why is this happening. Am I off
track by thinking the computers are being woken up by LAN
signals? I looked througout the registry within windows
and I don't see anything that specifies the computer to
power on after a shutdown. And since WOL uses several
different ports I cannot track it down so easily. The
drivers for the card are up to date and the BIOS is the
most recent. If there is an issue with WOL, which is
something I want in place, I'm not looking to sacrafice
it, is there a sniffer utility (preferably free/shareware)
that I can use to sniff out the possible source of the WOL
packets? Any other ideas or hints would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!
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There is nothing in Windows that can wake a machine. After all it is
powered down. Therefore it would seem it would have to be coming across
the LAN. I don't know how to capture the WOL packets though.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
 
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