[lug] OT: Wake On Lan

[Mr Viggy]

That's what I was thinking, after reading a couple of those web pages. 
WOL uses the MAC addy of the card.  So, WOL frames shouldn't really be 
routable, correct?

Viggy

Peter Hutnick wrote:
>>watch what is sent (DHCP broadcasts are apparently from normally
>>non-routeable IP's). Still, I thought that this machine would ignore
>>such broadcasts, I have in theory disabled WOL both in the o/s and in
>>the BIOS.
> 
> 
> WOL has nothing to do with IP.  There is no IP stack in your NIC . . .
> 
> AFAIK it uses raw ethernet frames.
> 
> I'm not much of a programmer, but you might find
> ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/diag/ether-wake.c instructive.
> 
> -Peter
> 
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