Re: suspend and hibernate nomenclature

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

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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....

>        wol p|u|m|b|a|g|s|d...
>               Set Wake-on-LAN options.  Not all devices support this.  The argument to this
>               option is a string of characters specifying which options to enable.
> 
>               p  Wake on phy activity
>               u  Wake on unicast messages
>               m  Wake on multicast messages
>               b  Wake on broadcast messages
>               a  Wake on ARP
>               g  Wake on MagicPacket(tm)
>               s  Enable SecureOn(tm) password for MagicPacket(tm)
>               d  Disable (wake on nothing).  This option clears all
>        previous options.

...I only knew about magicpacket-like stuff.
									Pavel
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