Wake on Lan: Router Problem

Question

I'm trying to get wake on lan to work. Everything is configured as needed and it works if I switch of my computer and wake it within a few minutes. As far as I understand the problem it is a router issue, the router seems to forget the mac address and stops to forward the magic-packet. Are there any possibilities to force the router to not forget the route to the computer? (I did look into the router but I can't find any more options that could be connected with the problem. It is a poorly documented Sagemcom Fibre router.)

Ubuntu 20.04

uname -r

5.11.0-34-generic

sudo lshw -C network

*-network                 
       Beschreibung: Ethernet interface
       Produkt: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       Hersteller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       Physische ID: 0
       Bus-Informationen: pci@0000:03:00.0
       Logischer Name: enp3s0
       Version: 0c
       Seriennummer: bc:ee:7b:8a:6e:f9
       Größe: 1Gbit/s
       Kapazität: 1Gbit/s
       Breite: 64 bits
       Takt: 33MHz
       Fähigkeiten: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       Konfiguration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=5.11.0-34-generic duplex=full firmware=rtl8168g-2_0.0.1 02/06/13 ip=192.168.1.22 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
       Ressourcen: irq:18 ioport:e000(Größe=256) memory:f7c00000-f7c00fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff

~$ dkms status
r8168, 8.048.00, 5.11.0-34-generic, x86_64: installed
~$ ls -al /boot
insgesamt 201001
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root     4096 Sep 14 06:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root     4096 Mai  4  2020 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   253507 Aug 27 09:43 config-5.11.0-34-generic
drwx------  4 root root      512 Jan  1  1970 efi
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     4096 Sep 13 20:17 grub
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       28 Sep  9 08:39 initrd.img -> initrd.img-5.11.0-34-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 94605589 Sep 14 06:14 initrd.img-5.11.0-34-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 94392894 Sep 14 06:13 initrd.img-5.11.0-34-generic.old-dkms
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       28 Sep 13 20:17 initrd.img.old -> initrd.img-5.11.0-34-generic
drwx------  2 root root    16384 Mai  4  2020 lost+found
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   182704 Aug 18  2020 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   184380 Aug 18  2020 memtest86+.elf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   184884 Aug 18  2020 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw-------  1 root root  5836236 Aug 27 09:43 System.map-5.11.0-34-generic
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       25 Sep  9 08:39 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-5.11.0-34-generic
-rw-------  1 root root 10132256 Aug 27 09:48 vmlinuz-5.11.0-34-generic
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       25 Sep 13 20:17 vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-5.11.0-34-generic

Answer 1

One of these should probably solve the problem. Only do one at a time, then retest.

1. r8168-dkms

Try replacing the r8169 driver with this driver...

sudo apt update

sudo apt install dkms r8168-dkms

reboot

2. WOL

Open terminal

nm-connection-editor

Check these settings...

3. MSI

MSI/MSIX interrupts were enabled for certain ethernet cards in Ubuntu 20.xx. This can cause intermittent ethernet operation. Here's a patch to fix it. Follow the embedded instructions to install.

#!/bin/sh
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1779817
filename: r8169_disable_msi
Drop it in /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top and chmod a+x it. Add 'r8169_disable_msi'
to your kernel command line (/etc/default/grub, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
usually.)
sudo -H gedit /etc/default/grub # to edit the file
Remember to update-initramfs and update-grub as necessary.
sudo update-initramfs -c -k $(uname -r)
sudo update-grub
reboot
For the moment it disables MSI on everything with the ID 0x10ec:0x8168, as there seems to
be no way to get the MAC version from userspace - and certainly not before the driver is
loaded. Other PCI IDs may need adding..
PREREQ=""
prereqs()
{
    echo "$PREREQ"
}
case $1 in
get pre-requisites
prereqs)
    prereqs
    exit 0
    ;;
esac
disable_msi () {
    for i in /sys/bus/pci/devices/*; do 
        if [ $(cat $i/vendor) = "0x10ec" -a $(cat $i/device) = "0x8168" ]; then
            echo 0 >$i/msi_bus
        fi
    done
}
for x in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
        case ${x} in
        r8169_disable_msi)
        disable_msi
        break
                ;;
        esac
done