I intend voting as well (once I get a bugsilla a/c)

BTW - DSLReports has a very good WOL FAQ here
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/wol

Basically the SB2 needs to know the MAC address of the server it is
trying to Wake and then Broadcast a magic packet (the MAC address *16
times) on the subnet.

Your router picks up the broadcast and send it out to each device
connected to it.
Only the NIC with the correct MAC address "hears" the broadcast and
wakes up.

The complicated bit is first to set up the NIC on the PC to actually
perform a Wake On Lan when it gets the packet.

Then the SB2 needs to figure out the MAC of that NIC, but that probably
be done by analysing a packet of data during setup, when the SB2
connects to the Slimserver.


-- 
oreillymj
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