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MagicPacket is a format specified by [AMD] for waking up remote computers via WakeOnLan.

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]).

A MagicPacket frame has an ethertype of 0x0842

See also:
* WakeOnLan
* WakeOnLanNotes
* [AMD's notes | http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/TechnicalResources/0,,50_2334_2481,00.html] on MagicPacket
* [etherwake | http://www.scyld.com/expert/wake-on-lan.html], a tool to send MagicPacket~s

One page links to MagicPacket:

WakeOnLanNotes

Last edited on Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:31:58 pm by DanielLawson

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