The WOL protocol can not move through firewalls so the only way people out side your LAN could do this would be if you did not have a firewall.

If you do not have a firewall then you deserve to have this happen to you.

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 14:42, R P Herrold wrote:
On 18 Feb 2003, Roy Souther wrote:

> I have been using ether-wake to send WOL (Wake-On-LAN) signals to the
> terminals on my network but I would also like to be able to send them a
> halt instruction. I could write a small software thing to do this if it
> does not exist but I would like to know if it does. No sense
> re-inventing the wheel.

I would be really afraid if you can, for forgeries could 
cripple an enterprise, absent one-time asymmetric keyed 'HOL'

-- Russ Herrold
Roy Souther
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