G> "Mark.Lewis"  wrote in message
 G> news:f09ddf.2519f6{at}harborwebs.com...

> it does... FFFFFFFF to the specific MAC address or the card/system 
> to  WOL...

 G> What protocol?

i don't remember if it is a standard TCP/IP or UDP packet... normal stuff, though...

[time passes]

google is our friend... i was incorrect... it is FFFFFFFFFFFF followed by
the specific ethernet address of the adapter repeated at least 16 times...
based on what i'm reading, the ethernet address would be the mac address...


the following is found at
http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/mini-howto/wol-mini-howto-2.html

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2.4 Wake-up frame

A Wake-up frame is a special data packet containing the Ethernet address of
the remote network card. Somewhere in this frame should exist a byte stream
(magic sequence) composed by, at the least, 16 times the repetition of the
Ethernet address and preceded by a synchronization stream of 6 bytes of
FFh.
Magic sequence

If the Ethernet address of a target computer is 01:02:03:04:05:06 (6
bytes), then the LAN controller of that machine should be looking for the
following sequence

    FFFFFFFFFFFF010203040506010203040506010203040506010203040506
    010203040506010203040506010203040506010203040506010203040506
    010203040506010203040506010203040506010203040506010203040506
    010203040506010203040506

inside the frame.

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