[lug] OT: Wake On Lan

[Mr Viggy]

Is it actually rebooting, or comming out of "sleep" mode?  My impression 
was that WOL would bring a machine out of sleep, but not reboot the 
system (unless you told it to).

You should prolly upgrade to WinME.  98 has, well, issues.  I'm running 
98 on my "soft router" machine (I have an internal DSL card), and about 
once a month or so, it stops all Internet activity.  I have no idea why, 
it just does.  Once I reboot the system, all is fine again.  Oh, and 
this system is shut off every evening (i.e. it's not running all the time).

Viggy

D. Stimits wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone here is familiar with how Wake On Lan (WOL) is 
> communicated? In this case, it is the Linksys LNE100TX, ver. 5.1, but 
> perhaps there are common ways to implement this.
> 
> For one, is there a specific port used, or maybe a broadcast message? 
> Also, does this WOL feature detect when an ethernet cable has been 
> connected (I know the local switch/hub detects this), and run WOL just 
> by detecting a new physical connection?
> 
> My motive for asking this is that one machine in the newly wired house 
> sometimes spontaneously turns on. WOL has been turned off in the BIOS as 
> far as I can tell (the card is not integrated, so the BIOS may not have 
> complete control). The system (use the word loosely) is Win98 on fairly 
> modern hardware. I am trying to figure out why it can sometimes reboot. 
> Originally it was found to do this when turning off power on the bridge 
> and switch (testing UPS software), but on rare occasions it does this at 
> other times. My hope is that there is something I can use the Linux 
> filtering bridge for to at least remove all Internet influences, and 
> narrow the debugging down to the LAN or machine itself.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com
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