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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Wake On Lan device semantics
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 15:48:20 -0800
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On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:44:13 -0800
Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > It doesn't seem like a good idea for a network device to wake the system
> > if it is down.
> 
> before suspend existed this was the only useful case for WoL. Why does it not seem a 
> good idea to wake up a machine that was shutdown (and thus the interface `downed`) ?
> 
> Auke

It seems odd because that means you can never make a device fully deaf.

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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>