Hi, I'm not sure this idea makes sense.
Where would someone obtain a list of IPv6 addresses that they wish to send Wake-on-LAN packets to? And if preparing such a list, would it not be possible to compile an accurate list of MAC addresses at the time (using broadcast pings, ICMPv6 neighbour discovery and/or ipv6calc)? In many cases, a link-local (FE80:://64) IPv6 address can be mapped to the interface's MAC address, but a notable exception would be Windows boxes since Vista by default -- they randomise this: * http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.08.cableguy.aspx A properly-generated link-local address based on the interface MAC should end with 'xxxx:xxFF:FExx:xxxx', whereas the random ones generated by Windows probably won't. Globally-routed IPv6 addresses are even less likely to map to a real MAC address. Hosts using IPv6 Privacy Extensions may periodically randomise these on their outgoing traffic. And globally-routed or site-local addresses may have been statically assigned, or leased from a pool via DHCPv6. So it would seem this feature would rarely work. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
