XO in-field upgrades

Michail Bletsas mbletsas at laptop.org
Mon Jun 25 16:02:06 EDT 2007


> > 
> > You're misunderstanding me.  My concern is with waking machines up by
> > broadcasting this information.  We don't wake up on presence, but we
> > do want to wake up on (some, urgent) upgrades.
> 
> That's going to be interesting, yeah.  You would need to teach the
> wireless firmware about it?  How about just checking on wakeup?  Some
> kind of wake-on-lan signal?
> 
In general, we won't be waking up the host on broadcast/multicast frames.
We can make an exception for anycast addresses (that the firmware listens 
for), however I can't see a scenario where we wake up on broadcast.

M.





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