From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:42:49 -0500
> David Miller wrote: > > I guess you can argue that, like IP addresses, this WoL thing is an > > attribute of the "system". > > Yeah, it's definitely a system state. When the magic packet arrives, > the WOL wire on the motherboard is tickled, turning the machine on. Ok, and Stephen seems to agree now too on this point. I think there is merit to Stephen's assertion that WoL should be off by default. It allows remote entities to do something to your computer. I'm happy to hear counter-arguments, of course :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
