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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 17:02:54 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061103.170254.104035374.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454BE209.4020407@pobox.com>

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 :-)

      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-04  1:03 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
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 [this message]

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