Subject: Re: Wake On Lan device semantics

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

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.

Auke