Subject: Re: Wake On Lan device semantics

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:37:51 -0800

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:36:45 -0800
Auke Kok <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:44:13 -0800
> > Auke Kok <[email-masked]> 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
> > 
> > Interestingly it looks like e100 is one of the ones that only wakes from suspend (not when down).
> 
> that would be a bug, I'll have to get that checked especially after the latest changes 
> to it.
> 

Sorry, my bad my test machine was not setup properly.