Subject: Re: Wake On Lan device semantics

From: Auke Kok <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:44:13 -0800

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