From: John Beckett 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
message news::
> Only if WOL is active will it wake up and it wouldn't wake up fast enough to
> respond to a ping. (just guessing, I don't use WOL for anything.)

I think WOL requires a certain byte sequence in the packet. So, sending a
ping or other standard packet to a NIC would not cause it to wake the
system.

John

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