How do Wake-On-LAN works

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ryandrake

[2020] and wow, what a title. It looks like someone was trying to decide between "How Wake-On-LAN works" and "How does Wake-On-LAN work" and "How do Wake-On-LANs work" and just picked a random combination of words from those choices.

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ysleepy

I was kinda hoping to get the nitty gritty of how the NIC does the packet matching, how, it wakes up the system via PCIe and how switches route the frames to the port which has/had the client.

Nothing against the article though, but maybe someone knows a good writeup.

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chungy

Somehow, the bad grammar gives something special by signifying an LLM didn't write it.

Then again, an LLM could probably help clean up the grammar.

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havblue

Maybe you should run it through ai to correct the grammar before reading it...