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

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Mon Sep 22 11:54:46 CEST 2014


On 22/09/14 10:51, Phil Mayers wrote:
> On 22/09/14 08:42, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>
>> But I imagine people might want to wake every host once a night
>> and run some backup or software update remotely; so unconcerned
>> machines would see, say, one or two packets times the number of
>> sleeping machines per night. How many hosts do you have per broadcast
>> domain? more than 2**8?
>
> We have some IPv4 /21 with >2**10 hosts actually

Just to clarify - nearly 2**11, so it isn't half a subnet wasted!



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