presenting WOL to the user (was: Re: How to add wake on lan support for your card)

[gregoryd.freebsd at free.fr]

Quoting Stefan Sperling <stsp at stsp.name>:

>flags=XXXX<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,WOLMAGIC,WOLLINK,WOLUCAST,WOLBCAST,WOLMCAST>
> mtu 1500
>
> Would that be better?

IMHO, too much info packed in here, making reading difficult.

> Has anyone got better ideas?

What if there was a single line added, right after status for instance:

wol: (magic) unicast link multicast

The line mentions all wol options available, and shows the event triggering the
wake-up between brackets. Or between <> (whatever). Or even in upper case:

wol: MAGIC unicast link


gregory