As I understand it, while the data still comes over ethernet or WiFi, it is not further routed up the layer stack beyond the hardware medium layer itself.
For example, the vPro-enabled sender will inject ethernet or WiFi traffic into the conveyance medium (copper or air) just like normal. However, the vPro-enabled receiver will see the packet marked as vPro-out-of-band, and not send it further up the chain, but instead will intercept it and handle it internally. So ... my question is ... will a $25 consumer router route all data sent to it without regards to this vPro out-of-band tagging? I assume it will, be it in the form of ethernet or WiFi. Best regards, Rick C. Hodgin --- On Thu, 6/28/12, Tim Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Tim Schmidt <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Without software collusion > To: "Rick Hodgin" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Thursday, June 28, 2012, 4:00 PM > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Rick > Hodgin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Centrino chipsets now support vPro. The technology > exists to wield out-of-band communication through WiFi ... > though I honestly have no idea on the mechanics of how they > do it. > > > > Do general purpose (consumer) WiFi routers honor > out-of-band communication requests out of the box (without > an explicit setup to the contrary)? I would suggest that > if this technology exists to utilize something like vPro, > that the manufacturers of those devices are "playing nice" > with the reasons why they exist in the first place. Only a > guess though. I could be completely wrong. > > "Out of band" means other than the communications medium > being > discussed. If it travels over the ethernet wire, it's > ethernet, and > explicitly NOT out of band. Ditto Wifi. > > Most consumer equipment bridges wifi to the local LAN, > meaning any > computer on the local LAN can talk to any other computer on > the local > LAN, including Wifi, no restrictions. All of these > computers are > firewalled from the 'net in such a way that computers on the > 'net > cannot talk to ANY computer on the local LAN (the wireless > router > literally just discards any attempt) without a computer on > the local > LAN having asked the computer on the 'net to talk first. > > --tim > _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
