From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 23 6:29:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B7A37B4EC for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 06:29:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA15139; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:29:33 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.2/8.9.1) id f1NET3e85189; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:29:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14998.29615.599981.926187@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:29:03 -0500 (EST) To: Peter Dufault Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wake on Lan In-Reply-To: <200102231237.f1NCbjK03604@hda.hda.com> References: <14997.52814.482681.843693@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200102231237.f1NCbjK03604@hda.hda.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Dufault writes: > > > > Can somebody clue me in on how Wake On Lan is supposed to work? > > Does it require any support at all from the OS, or is it totally a > > BIOS thing? > > I don't know how "Wake On Lan" is supposed to work, but the "Sony Vaio > Slimtop" I have comes out of suspend mode when I ping it. I've had > it idle for half an hour so I don't know of any other events that > wake it up. > > You'd have to be sure nothing was going to talk to it and you'd need > an ARP entry for once the arp cache timed out to use this in any way. It sounds like your Sony is doing something rather non-standard, and which is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the AMD "magic packet" protocol which sends a packet that looks like this (to wake up a machine with MAC 01:23:45:67:89:ab): 09:25:36.230235 1234567.89:ab:01:23:45:67.89ab > ffffffff.ff:ff:01:23:45:67.89ab: ipx-#89ab 65505 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff 0123 4567 89ab 0123 4567 89ab 0123 4567 89ab 0123 4567 89ab 0123 4567 89ab 0123 4567 89ab 0123 4567 89ab 0123 4567 89ab 0123 4567 89ab 0123 4567 89ab 0123 4567 89ab 0123 4567 Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message