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How do Wake-On-LAN works

66 pointsby swq115last Saturday at 11:03 AM23 commentsview on HN

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ryandraketoday at 4:59 PM

[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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ysleepytoday at 5:29 PM

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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chungytoday at 5:04 PM

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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havbluetoday at 5:19 PM

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