On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, James Carlson wrote:
> Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
> > Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> >> Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> Is Wake on Lan support available in OpenSolaris?
> >>
> >> No.
> >
> > Are there any plans to support it? Or any way I can get Solaris to
> > support something similar? I don't mind a Solaris-specific solution.
>
> There were attempts at this in the past; PSARC 2006/132 was one. That
> case is unfortunately unpublished, and I doubt that it can be published.
> (If I recall correctly, it was a "special" for one of Sun's customers.)
It was special and experimental. Though still feasible from an
experimental nature, it does suffer from the the tangible usage case.
>
> I think the lack of support for it reflects a lack of a tangible usage
> case more than anything else. If there were someone with a solid need,
> and someone to work on it, it might get done. A lot more effort has
> been put into generic low-power modes than into special mechanisms like
> "wake on LAN."
>
> (What I recall of that case was that it was -- searching for words --
> "experimental" in nature. A project started now to address this issue
> would probably be better off starting from scratch.)
>
Though a usable approach might be different, it sould at least build
on the information obtained from the "experiment".
---- Randy
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