Wake On Lan. First, it has to be enabled in BIOS (WoL) After that, in Windows, check the NIC (Properties, Configurate) or Device MAnager, Properties, Advance and Allos WoL. Then, send a magic packet to the MAC, IP and port 7 or 9. On Linux, do the same with the BIOS, go to the eth0 Port (ethtool eth0) and check that Wake On Lan has de g letter, if not: If you are using RHEL / SL / Fedora / CentOS Linux, edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: # vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Add / modify the following line: ETHTOOL_OPTS="wol g" OR ETHTOOL_OPTS="wol g autoneg off speed 100 duplex full " Save and close the file. If you are using Debian / Ubuntu Linux, edit /etc/network/interfaces: # vi /etc/network/interfaces Append the following to eth0: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.254 post-up /sbin/ethtool -s eth0 wol g post-down /sbin/ethtool -s eth0 wol g Finally, use a WoL program and put MAC Address IP Subnet Port 7, 9 or 2114