From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wake On Lan device semantics
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:42:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <454BE209.4020407@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061103.160230.71088561.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:51:25 -0500
>
>> The purpose of WOL is being able to turn on a system remotely, if it is
>> in a power-off or sleep state.
>>
>> So, if the system is -on- and the interface is down and/or driver is
>> unloaded, are you saying WOL is a problem somehow?
>
> Stephen is saying that if you down an interface, it should disable
> that WoL functionality.
Many distros down the interface on poweroff, a state from which WOL is
often used, so we don't want this.
> 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.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-04 0:43 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 [this message]
2006-11-04 1:02 ` David Miller
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