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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: Wake On Lan device semantics
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:02:54 -0800 (PST)
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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:42:49 -0500

> David Miller wrote:
> > I guess you can argue that, like IP addresses, this WoL thing is an
> > attribute of the "system".
> 
> Yeah, it's definitely a system state.  When the magic packet arrives, 
> the WOL wire on the motherboard is tickled, turning the machine on.

Ok, and Stephen seems to agree now too on this point.

I think there is merit to Stephen's assertion that WoL should
be off by default.  It allows remote entities to do something
to your computer.

I'm happy to hear counter-arguments, of course :-)