[XBold]

Reworks the wake path so a wake is a race against a boot, not against a request.

Check before you knock. Each wake runs one health check before any magic packet is sent. A health entry that has simply gone stale (health_cache_duration is shorter than health_check_interval) is not proof the machine is down, so an awake machine with an aged-out entry is confirmed with no packets and no startup wait instead of ~31s of burst + quiet period.

Proxy-owned wake. Each wake runs as one background operation per machine, detached from any request context: clients that time out or disconnect stop waiting, but the wake keeps running, the machine still gets confirmed, and later requests join the in-flight wake instead of firing another burst.

Bursts + startup quiet period. If the pre-wake check fails, a burst of wol_burst_count magic packets goes out (default 3, 500ms apart — a lone packet is easy to lose to a sleeping NIC or a switch with a stale ARP entry), then startup_time passes before the next health check: a machine that just got its packet cannot answer one yet.

Adaptive or fixed polling. After the first check, the wait halves each cycle (30s, 15s, 7.5s, ... down to 500ms) so the boot is spotted quickly — or stays fixed at wake_health_check_interval if you prefer predictable polling.

Per-machine budget. wake_timeout bounds the whole wake independently of any client deadline. startup_time is validated strictly below each machine's effective wake budget (wake_timeout, or the global timeout when that is not set) — equality is rejected as a configuration error. When startup_time is omitted the default is derived from the tightest wake budget in the config rather than a fixed 30s, so existing configs with a short timeout keep loading.

startup_time = "30s"

[[machines]]
name = "nas"
wol_burst_count = 3
#wake_timeout = "2m"
#wake_health_check_interval = "2s"

Rebased onto current main (machines/routes architecture); replaces the old fixed 500ms WOL ticker / poll_interval health ticker with the burst model. Tests adapted + new ones in main_test.go.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Wake requests check host health first, skipping magic packets and startup wait when the host is already responding.
  • When needed, wake requests send configurable bursts of magic packets, then check health on a fixed or progressively shorter schedule until the host responds or its wake timeout expires.
  • Wake operations continue if the initiating request times out or disconnects; later requests can join an in-progress wake.
  • Configure startup time, packet burst count, wake timeout, and health-check interval globally or per machine.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on wake behavior, configuration options, defaults, and startup-time limits.

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Walkthrough

Wake requests now share a background wake per machine. The wake checks health before sending WOL packet bursts, then checks again after startup delay. Configuration sets wake timeouts and polling intervals. Client cancellation stops only that client’s wait.

Changes

Background Wake Flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Wake configuration main.go, config.toml, main_test.go	Adds global startup timing and per-machine wake settings. Configuration parsing applies defaults and validates durations and burst counts.
Shared wake coordination main.go, main_test.go	The first caller starts a wake generation. Concurrent callers join it and wait with their own request contexts. Tests cover joining, failed checks, retries, and initiator cancellation.
Packet bursts and health checks main.go, README.md, config.toml, main_test.go	Wake generations check health before sending WOL bursts, then use a startup delay and configured or adaptive intervals until success or timeout. Documentation, sample configuration, and tests describe and exercise these cycles.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Request
  participant Machine
  participant runWake
  participant WOL
  participant HealthCheck
  Request->>Machine: Start or join wake generation
  Machine->>runWake: Start generation
  runWake->>HealthCheck: Check machine health
  HealthCheck-->>runWake: Return health result
  runWake->>WOL: Send packet bursts when unhealthy
  runWake->>HealthCheck: Check after startup delay and intervals
  HealthCheck-->>runWake: Return health result
  runWake-->>Machine: Complete generation with result
  Machine-->>Request: Return result or caller cancellation

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A machine configured with a negative wake timeout can wait longer than its operator expects. Reject non-positive values before merging, or accept this bounded configuration risk.

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Review comments at @main.go:
- Around line 1231-1244: Update waitForWake to perform one health check before
entering the WOL burst loop; if the machine is already healthy, update
machine.IsHealthy and machine.LastCheck and return without sending WOL packets.
Keep the existing burst and wait behavior for machines that fail the initial
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- Around line 1503-1509: Update LoadConfig to preserve the implicit startup_time
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🟡 Minor · Reject non-positive wake_timeout values during configuration parsing. · main.go:1895-1933

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Reject non-positive wake_timeout values during configuration parsing.

A configured wake_timeout = "-1s" is parsed successfully, but waitForWake uses the global timeout because it overrides the timeout only when WakeTimeout > 0. The machine therefore does not receive its configured deadline and can wait much longer than its configuration specifies.

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 		if entry.WakeTimeout != "" {
 			wakeTimeout, err = time.ParseDuration(entry.WakeTimeout)
 			if err != nil {
 				return routing{}, fmt.Errorf("invalid wake_timeout for machine %s: %w", entry.Name, err)
 			}
+			if wakeTimeout <= 0 {
+				return routing{}, fmt.Errorf("wake_timeout for machine %s must be greater than zero", entry.Name)
+			}
 		}

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Thanks for this, and for the rebase. Some of it fixes real problems on main and I want to keep those parts:

• One wake per machine, joined by later requests. On main, every waiting request runs its own send and check loop, so N requests means N senders. This fixes that.
• The wake keeps going after the client leaves.
• Bursts instead of single packets.
• Per-machine wake_timeout.

Before the details, one question: what are you waking, and how long does it take to boot? If your hardware has a reason to hold off on checks or packets early in the boot, that would change point 5 below.

Looking at your fork's history, I think the goal was to cut down on two kinds of noise during a boot: WOL spam and failed-check log lines. Both are fair. The packet every 500ms on main was a hack on my part. I'd like to keep your goals but reach them without the wait, and I'm asking for a fairly big change, so here's my reasoning.

With the defaults, a cold wake gets much slower. The pre-wake check can take up to 5s against a sleeping host, then the burst takes about 1s, then startup_time adds 30s. For the suspend setup in the README, that's 31 to 36s before the request goes through, compared with about 5s today. Clients with timeouts of 30s or less will fail every first request.

I don't think the fix is new defaults. Health checks and magic packets are both cheap, so waiting before checking only adds delay. Once startup_time is 0, the halving schedule and the separate pre-wake check don't do anything either. So I'd rather remove them than keep config keys nobody needs.

Here's the shape I'd like:

1. Separate timers for sending and checking. Send a burst right away, then every few seconds, for the whole wake. Check health right away, then every poll_interval. A slow check should never hold back a packet. A burst every few seconds is still far fewer packets than main sends.
2. A short timeout for checks during a wake, maybe 1 to 2s. Against a sleeping host, a 5s check turns a 5s poll into a 10s one.
3. Keep wake logs quiet without waiting. Don't log each failed check during a wake. Log one line when the wake ends, with how long it took and how many checks ran.
4. Fail fast if every packet in the first burst fails to send. A wrong broadcast_ip should show up right away, not after the whole wake timeout.
5. Drop the halving schedule, and drop startup_time unless your hardware needs it. If it does, keep it as an opt-in with a default of 0.
6. Keep poll_interval as the wake poll rate. Right now it's still parsed but no longer used for wakes, while config.toml still says it is. Then wake_health_check_interval can go, or become a per-machine poll_interval if you think that's worth having.
7. Simplify wake ownership. A *wakeInfo per machine is enough. The generation counter can't differ from the current value, since a new wake can only start after the old one has finished.
8. Reject negative wake_timeout values at config load, as CodeRabbit pointed out.

That leaves two new config keys (wol_burst_count, wake_timeout) instead of four, or three if startup_time stays as an opt-in. A wake would be at least as fast as on main in every setup, faster when the health entry is stale or a packet gets lost, and it would send far fewer packets and log far fewer lines.

I know this throws away a good share of the work, including the tests built around startup_time and the halving. Sorry about that. The ownership and burst parts are solid, and I'd be glad to merge the PR in this shape.

[XBold]

Thanks for the detailed review.

To answer your question: I'm waking my main desktop, which takes 20–30 seconds from the magic packet to being fully up and service-ready. There's no hardware reason to hold off on packets or checks during that window — the NIC simply ignores packets while the machine is booting, and the failed checks are the noise that the quiet-logs idea (point 3) already handles. So I have no need for a quiet period: point 5 can go as you propose — drop the halving schedule and startup_time. If you'd rather keep startup_time around as an opt-in with a default of 0 for other people's hardware, that's fine too; I don't need it myself. My machine will just get a per-machine wake_timeout sized for the ~30s boot (say 60s).

The rest of the plan works for me too: separate send/check timers, 1–2s check timeout during a wake, fail-fast when the first burst fails to send, poll_interval as the wake poll rate, and the *wakeInfo ownership simplification. I'll rework the PR in that shape and reject non-positive wake_timeout values at config load. Happy to redo the parts built around startup_time and the halving — glad the ownership and burst parts stay.