Bug#423457: wakeonlan: extract MAC from IPv6 address

2010-12-18 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, I'm not sure this idea makes sense. Where would someone obtain a list of IPv6 addresses that they wish to send Wake-on-LAN packets to? And if preparing such a list, would it not be possible to compile an accurate list of MAC addresses at the time (using broadcast pings, ICMPv6 neighbour disc

Bug#423457: wakeonlan: extract MAC from IPv6 address

2009-04-23 Thread Niko Tyni
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:10:50AM +0200, Thomas Prochaska wrote: > > this is about the common way of autoconfiguring IPv6 addresses by > > creating the host-specific interface identifier (the lower 64 bits > > of the address)from the Ethernet address of the host. This can > > indeed be reversed, s

Bug#423457: wakeonlan: extract MAC from IPv6 address

2008-09-03 Thread Thomas Prochaska
hi! > this is about the common way of autoconfiguring IPv6 addresses by > creating the host-specific interface identifier (the lower 64 bits > of the address)from the Ethernet address of the host. This can > indeed be reversed, so the request makes sense. That's right. But I think the question i

Bug#423457: wakeonlan: extract MAC from IPv6 address

2008-04-05 Thread Niko Tyni
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:10:19PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 12 May 2007 01:12, Rob Leslie wrote: > > If a host has a resolvable IPv6 address, it would be nice to have an option > > to automatically extract the MAC address from it. > > Thanks for your report, but can you

Bug#423457: wakeonlan: extract MAC from IPv6 address

2007-05-14 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
tags 423457 moreinfo ipv6 thanks Hi, On Saturday 12 May 2007 01:12, Rob Leslie wrote: > If a host has a resolvable IPv6 address, it would be nice to have an option > to automatically extract the MAC address from it. Thanks for your report, but can you clarify: how exactly do you expect such an

Bug#423457: wakeonlan: extract MAC from IPv6 address

2007-05-11 Thread Rob Leslie
Package: wakeonlan Version: 0.41-6 Severity: wishlist If a host has a resolvable IPv6 address, it would be nice to have an option to automatically extract the MAC address from it. Cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: