Alert on LAN for Linux?

Terje Malmedal
2001-03-13T21:57:27Z

Alert on LAN seems to have some useful functionality, if I understand
things correctly they have enhanced Wake-on-LAN to allow you to do
things like reset the machine, update the BIOS and such by sending
magic packets which are interpreted by the network card. Or maybe I am
reading too much into this:

http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/desktop/alertonlan/

Anyway, my eepro100 cards say they are Alert on LAN capable, it would
be very useful to be able to use this reboot a Linux box remotely:

02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)

Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100+ Management Adapter with Alert On LAN*
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at 40200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 1400 [size=64]
Memory at 40100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=1M]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

Does anybody know anything about Alert on LAN and whether it does what
I think it does?

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- Terje
malmedal@usit.uio.no