Use of 102 Bytes MagicPacket Length

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Hi,

Why the MAC address is repeated 16 times in Wake on LAN tool? The first 6 Bytes in a magic packet is its header which is of all 255 (FF FF FF FF FF FF in hexadecimal), followed by sixteen repetitions of the target computer's 48-bit MAC address, for a total of 102 bytes.Is the tool works if the magic packet length is only 12 Bytes [ie 6 bytes header + 6 Bytes MAC address]?

Can anybody help me.

Thanks

Posted 6-Oct-11 18:16pm

Pgmer 7879944

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 1 · 2011-10-06T18:34:00

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Some things are just standards, there is no point in asking why as that is how the standard was set and everyone is using it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN[^]

Posted 6-Oct-11 18:34pm

Mehdi Gholam

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Pgmer 7879944 7-Oct-11 1:17am

Ok.Thank u.
We can use magic packet to power on remote machine rite. Can we use the same magic packet to power off the remote machine? any idea?

Mehdi Gholam 7-Oct-11 1:26am

Power off is an OS specific thing, so no you can't.