Wake-up by a network device

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a network interface of a first network device of a plurality of network devices having a first Media Access Control (MAC) address, a request to wake-up a second network device of the plurality of network devices having a second MAC address that is assigned to a same subnet as the first MAC address;
• in response to the request, generating, by the first network device of the plurality of network devices, a first wake-up frame having a destination address of the second MAC address and configured to cause the second network device of the plurality of network devices to transition from operating in the first power mode to operating in the second power mode;
• and
• transmitting, by the network interface of the first network device of the plurality of network devices, an L2 unicast frame comprising the first wake-up frame to the second MAC address of the second network device of the plurality of network devices in a non-broadcast signal.

A least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by the at least one processing resource of a first network device to:

• receive, by a network interface of a first network device of a plurality of network devices, a request to wake-up a second network device of the plurality of network devices, wherein the network interface has a first media access control (MAC) address and the second network device has a second MAC address assigned to a same subnet as the first MAC address;
• in response to the request, generate, by the first network device of the plurality of network devices, a first wake-up frame having the second MAC address as a destination address and configured to cause the second network device of the plurality of network devices to transition from operating in the first power mode to operating in the second power mode;
• and
• transmit within a non-broadcast signal, by the network interface of the first network device of the plurality of network devices, the wake-up frame as an L2 unicast frame, to the second MAC address of the second network device of the plurality of network devices.