[Etherboot-developers] Wake-on-LAN patch

[Tilmann B. <bu...@th...>]

Hello!

please find enclosed a patch to optionally enable etherboot to start the 
server it is booting from by sending a magic wake-on-lan packet to the 
sleeping server first.

This is very important for an etherboot-server, which is not running all the 
time and is not easily accessible from the etherboot machine (e.g. because it 
is installed in the basement of the house and one must climb several stairs to 
switch the server on...)

Are the authors of etherboot willing to accept this patch for inclusion? 
Please note, that the wake-on-lan code is only compiled in, when setting 
appropriate flags in src/Config.

If you don't want to include the patch, should I change anything of the 
implementation or do you dislike the idea at all?
 
Thanks!
   Till

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