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From: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Wake On Lan device semantics
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:35:59 -0800
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.

sure you can, just turn off WoL and e1000 will really shutdown (at least, I hope :))

Auke