On 19 Jan 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Hmm.  I haven't looked in detail but I believe that wake-on-lan,
> is only that just the wake up not reset or power off.  And it is really
> touchy going beyond that because then anyone plugged into your switch
> could reset/reboot any of your nodes.

This is true. But, reset-on-lan and power-off-on-lan are going to happen.
API does it now on the CS20, and another (to-be-named) company is going to
do it too.

> And with at least SDRAM timing at issue at stake this is something
> that is that needs solving.

what do you think of using CMOS as a flag for "last time I reset, linux
got all the way up".

I'm going to put example code for this out in C form in a bit.

ron

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