From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jgarzik@pobox.com
Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wake On Lan device semantics
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:02:30 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061103.160230.71088561.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454BD5FD.2030502@pobox.com>
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:51:25 -0500
> The purpose of WOL is being able to turn on a system remotely, if it is
> in a power-off or sleep state.
>
> So, if the system is -on- and the interface is down and/or driver is
> unloaded, are you saying WOL is a problem somehow?
Stephen is saying that if you down an interface, it should disable
that WoL functionality.
I guess you can argue that, like IP addresses, this WoL thing is an
attribute of the "system".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-04 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-03 23:20 Wake On Lan device semantics Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-03 23:44 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-03 23:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-04 1:35 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-03 23:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-04 1:36 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-04 1:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-04 1:44 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-03 23:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-04 0:02 ` David Miller [this message]
2006-11-04 0:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-04 1:53 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-04 0:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-04 1:02 ` David Miller
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