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Date:      Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:01:59 -0800
From:      justin@mac.com
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wake up on lan driver support
Message-ID:  <DFBF312B-D708-11D5-98A7-0003934474AC@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011112103651.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Sunday, November 11, 2001, at 04:06 , Daniel O'Connor wrote:

>
> On 11-Nov-2001 matt wrote:
>>  Hi, guys, is there any wake up on lan driver support
>>  available in the NIC driver tree? or if any one have any
>>  pointers on this?
>
> I didn't think this was a driver issue?
> ie the main part is the crafting of the magic packet to wake the card 
> up.

The technology is explained on a number of websites; here's one I found 
just now:

    http://www.networking.ibm.com/eji/ejiwake.html

I think it requires device driver support because it has to be enabled 
(at least, that's what the devices I know about require).

Regards,

Justin

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