[lug] OT: Wake On Lan

[Sexton, George]

You can actually send wake on lan packets out as UDP. There is a program out
there named wake.pl that you can look at to see how it works.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of Peter Hutnick
Sent: 27 August, 2002 1:39 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] OT: Wake On Lan


> 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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