Proxmox Wake-on-LAN Not Working? You're Probably Solving Two Different Problems
Almost every Proxmox WoL thread is actually two unrelated conversations happening at once, because “wake-on-lan on Proxmox” means one of two very different things depending on what you’re trying to wake up: Waking the physical Proxmox host from a full shutdown — this is regular hardware WoL, and it works, with some Proxmox-specific gotchas. Waking a VM that’s powered off — this is a different problem entirely, and traditional magic-packet WoL fundamentally doesn’t work for it, because a VM’s network card isn’t a physical device that can sit in a low-power state. If you’ve been mixing solutions from both categories and nothing works, that’s why. Let’s do them separately. ...