Am 04.03.2011 um 01:45 schrieb Allan, Bruce W:
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pieper, Jeffrey E [mailto:jeffrey.e.pie...@intel.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:44 PM
>> To: Brandeburg, Jesse; Wyborny, Carolyn
>> Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Wake on ARP not working
>> 
>> I can reproduce this on my SM w/ 82574 down.
>> 
>> Jeff

Thanks for testing, Jeff!

> The short answer is the driver should never have suggested (via ethtool) that 
> it supports Wake-on-ARP because it does not; i.e. it does not populate the 
> appropriate address tables in hardware, nor is there a way to do that yet.  
> I'll be submitting a patch that removes that option.  Wake-on-ARP may be a 
> supported feature in the future, but will require changes to ethtool as well.

A patch that adds real support for wake-on-ARP would be better, though. It
could even be implemented without any changes to the ethtool interface by
having the limitation of only supporting up to the first four configured
IP addresses.


Regards,
Mathias
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