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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Does Wake on LAN work with wireless networks?

| Wireless Driver & Software

Does Wake on LAN work with wireless networks?Although both wired and wireless networks use MAC addressing, the format of a wireless frame is different than the format of a wired frame. Specifically, there is additional information carried in the header of a wireless frame that interferes with the ‘magic packet’ frame, preventing the target machine from detecting the wakeup signal.

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