Salut and Suspend/Resume issues

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> writes:

> [...]
> Many things are likely to work, if update.1 turns on "wake on
> multicast" using the command "ethtool -s eth0 wol um", AND THE MESH IS
> NOT IN USE:
>
>   *  The laptop will suspend much of the time.
>   *  If someone sends it a multicast, that it is listening for, it will
>      wake up and respond to the traffic (possibly dropping one packet).
>   *  Random multicast traffic that the laptop isn't listening for will
>      NOT wake it up.

Can you explain how is this not mooted by considering mDNS, which XO's
all run and listen for?


- FChE