wakelan(1) - Linux man page

Name

wakelan - wake up a host with a wake-on-lan packet

Synopsis

wakelan [options] [mac] [bcast] [port]

Description

WakeLan sends a properly formatted UDP packet across the network which will cause a wake-on-lan enabled computer to power on.

Options

-m mac

MAC address of host to wake. MAC address should be six bytes, long, colons to separate bytes are optional.

-p bcast
Broadcast address to send packet to.
-p port
UDP port to send the packet to.

Example

./wakelan 05:5a:ef:97:12:88 ./wakelan 325f9aed3015 10.255.255.255 ./wakelan 325f9aed3015 lan-bcast

Copying

Copyright (C) 1998 Christopher Chan-Nui

wakelan is distributed under the GNU public license. See the file COPYING for details.

Author

Christopher Chan-Nui <channui+wakelan@freeware.tiny.org>