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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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should know that a solid green light means connectivity, a flashing green

light means intermittent connectivity, no green light means no connectivity,

and a flashing amber light means there are collisions on the network (which

is sometimes okay). Also, know that the first things you should check when

having connectivity issues are the NIC’s LEDs.

Wake-on-LAN

A popular feature of most NICs is the ability to turn on or wake up a

powered-down or sleeping PC. You’ll learn more about power management

in Chapter 23, “Portable Computing,” but for now, know that Wake-on-LAN

is handy when you want to wake up one or multiple computers that you

aren’t physically near. To wake up a PC with Wake-on-LAN, you’ll need to

use a second PC to send either a special pattern or a magic packet (a

broadcast packet that essentially repeats the destination MAC address many

times).

A powered-down or sleeping PC knows to look for this special pattern or

packet, at least after configured to do so. Go to the Control Panel and open

Network and Sharing Center. Click Manage network connections or Change

adapter settings on the left. For all versions of Windows, right-click on the

adapter and select Properties. Click the Configure button in the Properties

dialog box and then select the Power Management tab (see Figure 19-21). To

enable Wake-on-LAN, make sure the checkbox next to Allow this device to

wake the computer is checked. Optionally, you can select Only allow a magic

packet to wake the computer, which will instruct the NIC to ignore

everything but magic packets.

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