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Old May 6th, 2010, 13:14
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Question Sending Wake-on-LAN packets at kernel level
Hi,

In a project I'm working on I have to send WoL packets from kernel level (rather than from user space).
Does anyone know how to send WoL packets from kernel level?

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The Berkeley Packet Filter or BPF provides, on some Unix-like systems, a raw interface to data link layers, permitting raw link-layer packets to be sent and received.
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