Hi! > > > > > ?? WOL is for different functionality, I'm afraid. Or do you know > > > > > ethernet hub that automagically wakes machines when data come? > > > > > > > > No, that's exactly what WOL is designed for. A typical scenarios has > > > > the adapter waking up when the incoming packet is unicast to the MAC > > > > address of that host. The hub/switch would act normally. > > > > > > I do not think WOL wakes that way. IIRC it needs magic ethernet > > > packet. > > > > That's right. I don't remember what the contents need to be, but WOL > > doesn't work with any old ethernet packet. > > You're both wrong. Notice what "man ethtool" reports: Ok, you are right and I was wrong.... > wol p|u|m|b|a|g|s|d... > Set Wake-on-LAN options. Not all devices support this. The argument to this > option is a string of characters specifying which options to enable. > > p Wake on phy activity > u Wake on unicast messages > m Wake on multicast messages > b Wake on broadcast messages > a Wake on ARP > g Wake on MagicPacket(tm) > s Enable SecureOn(tm) password for MagicPacket(tm) > d Disable (wake on nothing). This option clears all > previous options. ...I only knew about magicpacket-like stuff. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
