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Re: Wake On LAN Functions.
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Re: Wake On LAN Functions.

  • Subject: Re: Wake On LAN Functions.
  • From: Stuart Cheshire <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:46:39 -0700
>Ah, but where do you send the UDP pkt to? Broadcasts aren't (in
>general) going to be forwarded by a router, not even across a VPN. If
>the target had a static IP, it might work

Even with a static IP address, the router will typically have ARP for
that IP address before it can send a unicast UDP packet to it -- and
since there's nothing there to answer the ARP, the UDP packet dies with
an "ICMP host unreachable".

Stuart Cheshire <email@hidden>
 * Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Computer, Inc.
 * www.stuartcheshire.org

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