wake on lan / wol with linux in IPv6-LAN (without IPv4)

[Ignatios Souvatzis]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:16:06PM +0100, Tom Hill wrote:
> On 16/09/14 13:34, Bj?rn Mork wrote:
> > This depends on all-stations multicast being forwarded to inactive
> > ports. If it works with your switches, then fine.  But I don't think you
> > can assume it works everywhere.
> 
> I'd be quite surprised if you find a switch that doesn't treat ff02::1
> in the same way as IPv4 broadcast, by default.
> 
> Saying that, I'd much prefer that IPv6 WoL had a known IPv6 multicast
> address, as opposed to using ff02::1.

But... that would mean you'd have to configure that. WoL wants to work
with minimal hardware action - it only checks for any ffffffffffff followed
by a couple of times its mac address anywhere in a packet, right?

	-is