WAKE(8) BSD System Manager's Manual WAKE(8)NAME
wake - send Wake on LAN frames to hosts on a LAN
SYNOPSIS
wake [interface] lladdr [lladdr ...]
DESCRIPTION
The wake program is used to send Wake on LAN (WoL) frames over a local
Ethernet network to one or more hosts using their link layer (hardware)
addresses. WoL functionality is generally enabled in a machine's BIOS and
can be used to power on machines from a remote system without having phy-
sical access to them.
If interface is an Ethernet interface of the local machine, it is used to
send the Wake on LAN frames over it. Else wake uses the first Ethernet
device found in the system. lladdr is the link layer address of the re-
mote machine. This can be specified as the actual hardware address (six
hexadecimal numbers separated by colons) or as a hostname entry in
/etc/ethers. wake accepts multiple lladdr addresses. Link layer addresses
can be determined and set using ifconfig(8).
FILES
/etc/ethers Ethernet host name data base.
SEE ALSOethers(5), ifconfig(8)AUTHORS
wake was written by Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>.
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