On Sat, 20 May 2006, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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.... Me too. I guess things have moved forward since the last time I looked at this stuff. Alan Stern
