[X4U] Re: Remote access to sleeping machine

[Stroller]

On Jul 24, 2005, at 10:25 pm, Timothy Luoma wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:04:37 +0200 "Richard Clark" <mawgadog at tin.it> 
> wrote:
>> i think it can be awaken with something called a magic packet.
>
> Indeed.  There's an app called "WakeOnLAN" that does that.

You need the machine's Mac address to utilise it. This won't go through 
a router, but the OP doesn't discuss the machine's Internet 
configuration, so it's impossible to determine whether it is possible 
to wake the machine from the 'net (I think that with  some cable modem 
connections it might be possible for packets to traverse the local loop 
at that level??).

Of course, this isn't a relevant issue when the computer is awake, and 
how would the user know if someone "somehow log[ed] onto and somehow 
invade[d] his computer", but let's not let a little ignorance get in 
the way of paranoia.

Stroller.