Correct - if the WOL packet is a broadcast, a router should drop the
packet immediately and *not* send it to the other networks it routes
between.
As far as I know it is only DHCP broadcasts that you can configure a
router to forward easily (RFC-1542 compliance), not magic packets, but
I think it can be done. However, I think that most home networks are
small enough to be on only one subnet, so a caveat regarding forwarding
of WOL magic packets over a router is not that much of a problem IMHO.


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