Wake-on-LAN

[Dave Feustel]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 10:29:30AM -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Has anyone experience with WOL under Fedora?
> > If so, how exactly do you put the machine to sleep,
> > and how exactly do you wake it up remotely?
> >
> > I recently acquired an HP ML110 server (G5 Xeon 3065).
> > This is said to have Wake-on-LAN capability,
> > but when I suspend it to RAM I do not seem able
> > to wake it remotely.
> >
> > Should one (or can one) suspend to disk for this purpose?
> >   
> 
> The OS doesn't need any support for WOL, all the settings are done in
> the BIOS.
> Sometimes it's a setting that only says "low power mode" - when it's
> enabled, no power is sent to the network card while the computer is
> asleep, so no wakeup is possible. A simple way to check is to look at
> the NIC while your computer is in sleep - the ethernet connection
> light(s) should be on
> 
Two very knowledgeable people unknown to each other have said that there
was a U.S. law passed in the 1990's that require all computers to
contain circuitry that permits the pc to be undetectedly accessed
remotely via network connections. One of them specifically mentioned
HP computers in this regard. Does anyone at all have any verifiable
info confirming this allegation?

(I know this sounds really paranoid and conspiratorial. Sorry about that.)

Thanks.