Jacob Potter Wrote: 
> On 7/25/05, MrC <MrC.1sqlyb (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com>
> wrote:
> > WoL needs to be a) supported by the ethernet hardware, and b)
> > implemented in the driver, and c) implemented in the OS.  It is not
> > trivial.
> 
> Not for the sender - all it needs to do is send out a
> specially-formatted UDP broadcast packet. The reciever needs hardware
> support (and some cards require a special driver configuration to
> enable it), but that doesn't matter as far as the SB2 is concerned.
> - Jacob
Agreed.  But you'll notice the poster requested "in the firmware". 
This implies the much more difficult part, which is the server
implementation, and thus the requirements stated in my post.  There are
plenty of tools to send WoL magic packets, but that wasn't the question.


-- 
MrC
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