Ok, I get that, found it before; "typically sent as a UDP datagram to port 0, 7 or 9, or directly over Ethernet as EtherType 0x0842" The keyword being 'typically', but what is it that ether-wake actually uses/does? (I need to forward a WOL packet to a different vlan on some Cisco hardware, between two Centos machines). Ron On 5/17/20 8:14 PM, John Pierce wrote: > The WoL magic packet is only scanned for the string above, and not actually > parsed by a full protocol stack, it could be sent as any network- and > transport-layer protocol, although it is typically sent as a UDP > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol> datagram > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datagram> to port > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_and_UDP_port> 0,] > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#cite_note-6> 7 or 9, or > directly over Ethernet as EtherType > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherType> 0x0842 > > - from Wikipedia > > On Sun, May 17, 2020, 6:46 PM R C <cjvijf at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> >> what port does ether-wake use? (I believe it is port 9? but not sure). >> >> >> Ron >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos