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Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:22:59 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] sleepy linux
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Yep... for the first version, I'll be very happy if it autosleeps when
> I'm traveling by bus or something. Working with ethernet plugged in is
> quite a distant goal.
> 
> (But I guess some cleverness could be done on the router or
> something. Automagically converting "interesting" packets into WoL
> enabled ones, or...?)
> 									Pavel

You've just eliminated 90%+ of the available Ethernet infrastructure.

However, there may be Ethernet controllers which can do something smart 
with incoming packets, and perhaps more importantly, we can always write 
a spec and try to push it to Intel, Broadcom, Realtek and Nvidia.

	-hpa
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