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-MagicPacket is a format specified by AMD for waking up remote computers via WakeOnLan.
+MagicPacket is a format specified by [
AMD]
for waking up remote computers via WakeOnLan.
-It is fairly simple - it can
be included in the payload of any type of packet,
as long as it will be seen by the machine (ie,
a unicast packet to a third machine won't help if you are on a switched ethernet
).
+It simply consists of 6 repititions of 0xFF, followed by 16 repititions of the [IEEE] address of the machine you are trying to wake up. (On an [Ethernet], this refers to the [MAC] address.) This pattern
be included in the payload of any type of packet as long as it will be seen by the destination
machine (so
a unicast packet to a third machine won't help if you are on a switched [Ethernet]
).
-The format consists of 6 repititions of 0xFF, followed by 16 repititions of the IEEE address of the machine you are trying to wake up. On an ethernet, this refers to the MAC address.
-
-See
AMD's notes on MagicPacket [here
|http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/TechnicalResources/,,50_2334_2481,00.html]
-
-is
a tool to send [
MagicPacket]
s.
-
-See [WakeOnLan|WOL], WakeOnLanNotes
+See also:
+* WakeOnLan
+* WakeOnLanNotes
+* [
AMD's notes | http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/TechnicalResources/,,50_2334_2481,00.html] on MagicPacket
+* [
etherwake | http://www.scyld.com/expert/wake-on-lan.html],
a tool to send MagicPacket~
s
