Would there be a problem if all internet traffic was encrypted with HTTPS or some other protocol?
What are the trade offs for using encryption all the time? Is the speed of the connection reduced or are there other complications?
some bioses are... more comprehensive.. than others? I don't tend to touch this stuff too often but as i remember it, there's an option under power management to allow it to WOL and, I think, something else connected to the ACPI power states -
I don't know what to suggest then... I'm sure its there on all the bioses we use at work and i'm pretty sure its there on this machine i'm using right now, though i don't plan to reboot to find out, sorry
Again, can't remember the exact details (can you tell I switch my IT brain off at the weekend?) but you can program most switches to forward magic packets in much the same way you can get them to forward DHCP
Yeah - it's a raw ethernet packet, so it can't cross broadcast domain boundaries without some help. There's some wake-on-lan proxy software out there that might do what you need.