[lug] OT: Wake On Lan

[Peter Hutnick]

> 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