[lug] OT: Wake On Lan

[Mr Viggy]

Ahh, yes.  I forgot about your setup there!

;)

One of the benefits of being on DSL.  My neighbors can't see me, unless 
they know my IP, and happen to be using the same ISP.  Of course, the 
downside is that I don't get those 1+ MBit downloads!

Viggy

D. Stimits wrote:
> Mr Viggy wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> They do not have to be routeable in the case of a bridge to the cable 
> modem network...the same subnet is used for all of the customers in the 
> neighborhood. A bridge passes all of this along, it does not behave the 
> same as a router.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com
> 
>>
>> 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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