Richard Hughes wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:42 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: > ... >> This should be fine -- when your opponent's move's network traffic hits >> the Marvell chip, it will assert a wakeup and the CPU'll come back and >> process the traffic. >> > > That's some pretty sweet hardware. > Indeed. Extremely useful! I'm gathering this works via an "if there's a packet directed at the local machine, wake and ask to process". Assuming that's correct, do we have a way to filter out bad actors wanting to drain the battery of a given machine?
I can just imagine 30 kids getting together to prank user X by arranging to ping her every Y seconds to run down her battery (at ~30 times the speed of one of the prankster's machines). Letting the user opt out of the wake-on-lan entirely, or opt not to wake-on-lan for a given routing/iptables rule-match would be a useful security measure I would think. Probably too late and too complex an approach, but just a thought. Just a thought, Mike -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel