[Gllug] Detecting attempts to contact another machine and acting o

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On 12 Mar 2007, t. clarke told this:
> Can't the 'slug' simply listem on a suitable port for an incoming connection
> and run a user-space application which fires off the appropriate WoL packet to
> the other machine?

Wouldn't it need to listen on all ports at once, transparently? If you were
able to send a custom packet first then you could just make that packet
the WoL packet and eliminate the need for the slug at all.

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