[2020] and wow, what a title. It looks like someone was trying to decide between "How Wake-On-LAN works" and "How does Wake-On-LAN work" and "How do Wake-On-LANs work" and just picked a random combination of words from those choices.
This sort of thing is quite common for non-native speakers. The fact that you can say "how does X work" and "how X works" but not "how does X works" is not particularly obvious, and easy to mix up.
I was kinda hoping to get the nitty gritty of how the NIC does the packet matching, how, it wakes up the system via PCIe and how switches route the frames to the port which has/had the client.
Nothing against the article though, but maybe someone knows a good writeup.
That's more useful. A big question is how much is really turned off in a computer waiting for the wake-up packet.
"The power to the Ethernet controller must be maintained at all times, allowing the Ethernet controller to scan all incoming packets for the Magic Packet frame". So the full network controller is still alive. There's not some tiny Magic Packet detector hardware running off a rechargable coin cell or something, with the main power supply turned off. At least not in the original design.
A lot of sleep modes leave more running than you'd expect.
"How to send a magic packet in $LANG" isn't very interesting. Not only are there are plenty of examples out there for it, but I remember actually doing it 20+ years ago with a short PHP script, and even at the time it didn't seem like "enough" for a show-the-world blog post.
A dramatically shortened version (no error handling, logging, etc.) for your amusement:
This is one of those slippery slope things where Grammarly did "just" Grammar and then slowly got into tone and perception and brand voice suggestions and now seems to more or less just want to shave everything down to be as bland as possible.
[2020] and wow, what a title. It looks like someone was trying to decide between "How Wake-On-LAN works" and "How does Wake-On-LAN work" and "How do Wake-On-LANs work" and just picked a random combination of words from those choices.
English is not the author's primary language.
I think they did a great job for writing in a secondary language.
They did a much better job than a JavaScript developer writing Java.
This sort of thing is quite common for non-native speakers. The fact that you can say "how does X work" and "how X works" but not "how does X works" is not particularly obvious, and easy to mix up.
I was kinda hoping to get the nitty gritty of how the NIC does the packet matching, how, it wakes up the system via PCIe and how switches route the frames to the port which has/had the client.
Nothing against the article though, but maybe someone knows a good writeup.
The original paper proposing the technology is actually very good (and surprisingly still online!): https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/archived-te...
That's more useful. A big question is how much is really turned off in a computer waiting for the wake-up packet. "The power to the Ethernet controller must be maintained at all times, allowing the Ethernet controller to scan all incoming packets for the Magic Packet frame". So the full network controller is still alive. There's not some tiny Magic Packet detector hardware running off a rechargable coin cell or something, with the main power supply turned off. At least not in the original design.
A lot of sleep modes leave more running than you'd expect.
Ditto, I clicked and was disappointed.
"How to send a magic packet in $LANG" isn't very interesting. Not only are there are plenty of examples out there for it, but I remember actually doing it 20+ years ago with a short PHP script, and even at the time it didn't seem like "enough" for a show-the-world blog post.
A dramatically shortened version (no error handling, logging, etc.) for your amusement:
Somehow, the bad grammar gives something special by signifying an LLM didn't write it.
Then again, an LLM could probably help clean up the grammar.
This is one of those slippery slope things where Grammarly did "just" Grammar and then slowly got into tone and perception and brand voice suggestions and now seems to more or less just want to shave everything down to be as bland as possible.
I'm sure we'll start to get 'authentic' bad grammar LLMs that actually mussy up your grammar for that natural feeling.
You can do that now. Just ask it to use bad grammar and introduce spelling mistakes and it does.
Maybe you should run it through ai to correct the grammar before reading it...