Re: Linux and Wake-On-Lan

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

   From: Gianluca Masone <lucas75it@xxxxxxxx>
   Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 11:05:30 +0200 (CEST)

   Suppose i put a net device in wake-on-lan status.
   There is some kernel function that notifies presence
   of a wake packet ?

This is not how wake-on-lan works.

When your computer is put to sleep (via APM or ACPI),
the network card can listen for the wake packets.

If it is listening and a wakeup packet is received, your computer
wakes up from sleep state.

All of this happens in the hardware, all Linux can do is
enable/disable the feature.