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Grant Taylor wrote:

> Peter Flass wrote:
>
>> I remember when “wake on LAN” was a thing for PCs that did this.
> 
> as I understand it, it only worked on the local LAN (no pun intended)
> and did not work across a router.

It can work through routers, if you enable subnet directed broadcasts 
and send the magic packet to the remote subnet's broadcast address 
rather than the PC's IP address.

That lets you wake up a whole fleet of machines at different sites to 
patch them overnight ...

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Old days maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-23 10:58 +0000
  Re: Old days JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-23 11:31 -0500
    Re: Old days Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2020-09-23 17:46 +0100
      Re: Old days J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-23 13:22 -0400
    Re: Old days Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-09-23 17:55 +0000
      Re: Old days Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-09-23 20:08 +0000
        Re: Old days JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-23 16:14 -0500
        Re: Old days Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-23 15:34 -0700
          Re: Old days J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-23 19:15 -0400
          Re: Old days Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-09-24 18:40 +0000
            Re: Old days Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-09-24 19:42 +0000
              Re: Old days Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-09-24 16:42 -0500
                Re: Old days Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-09-25 07:59 +0000
                Re: Old days maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-25 10:12 +0000
                Re: Old days Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-09-25 13:54 +0000
                Re: Old days J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-25 15:53 -0400
            Re: Old days JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-24 16:07 -0500
            Re: Old days Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-24 15:48 -0700
              Re: Old days Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-09-24 23:18 +0000
            Re: Old days Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-25 00:53 +0100
    Re: Old days "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2020-09-23 19:52 +0200
      Re: Old days Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-23 11:36 -0700
        Re: Old days Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2020-09-23 12:46 -0600
          Re: Old days J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-23 19:10 -0400
          Re: Old days Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2020-09-24 08:39 +0100
            Re: Old days Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2020-09-24 08:58 -0600
        Re: Old days scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-09-23 19:19 +0000
        Re: Old days "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2020-09-23 23:11 +0200
        Re: Old days J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-23 19:09 -0400
          Re: Old days maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-24 08:10 +0000
            Re: Old days Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2020-09-24 09:02 -0600
              Re: Old days Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2020-09-24 16:31 +0100
              Re: Old days maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-24 17:06 +0000
                Re: Old days Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2020-09-24 16:27 -0600
              Re: Old days Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-09-24 16:36 -0500
            Re: Old days JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-24 10:37 -0500
              Re: Old days maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-24 17:09 +0000
          Re: Old days scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-09-24 13:39 +0000
            Re: Old days Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-09-24 14:34 +0000
              Re: Old days scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-09-24 15:30 +0000
                Re: Old days Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-09-24 16:42 +0000
            Re: Old days Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-24 11:21 -0700
              Re: Old days scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-09-24 18:52 +0000
  Re: Old days Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-09-23 16:39 -0500

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