wake(8) [freebsd man page]

WAKE(8) 						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						   WAKE(8)

NAME

     wake -- send Wake on LAN frames to hosts on a local Ethernet network

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 (hard-
     ware) addresses.  WoL functionality is generally enabled in a machine's BIOS and can be used to power on machines from a remote system with-
     out having physical access to them.

     interface is an Ethernet interface of the local machine and is used to send the Wake on LAN frames over it.  If there is only one Ethernet
     device available that is up and running, then the interface argument can be omitted.  lladdr is the link layer address of the remote 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 ALSO

     ethers(5), ifconfig(8)

AUTHORS

     wake was written by Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>.

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ETHER-WAKE(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     ETHER-WAKE(8)

NAME

       ether-wake - A tool to send a Wake-On-LAN "Magic Packet"

SYNOPSIS

       ether-wake [options] Host-ID

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents the usage of the ether-wake command.

       ether-wake  is a program that generates and transmits a Wake-On-LAN (WOL) "Magic Packet", used for restarting machines that have been soft-
       powered-down (ACPI D3-warm state). It generates the standard AMD Magic Packet format, optionally with  a  password  included.   The  single
       required  parameter  is	a station (MAC) address or a host ID that can be translated to a MAC address by an ethers(5) database specified in
       nsswitch.conf(5)

OPTIONS

       ether-wake needs a single dash ('-') in front of options.  A summary of options is included below.

       -b     Send the wake-up packet to the broadcast address.

       -D     Increase the Debug Level.

       -i ifname
	      Use interface ifname instead of sending a wake packet to all interfaces.

       -p passwd
	      Append a four or six byte password to the packet. Only a few adapters need or support this. A six byte password may be specified	in
	      Ethernet	hex format (00:22:44:66:88:aa) or four byte dotted decimal (192.168.1.1) format.  A four byte password must use the dotted
	      decimal format.

       -V     Show the program version information.

EXIT STATUS

       This program returns 0 on success.  A permission failures (e.g. run as a non-root user) results in an exit status of  2.   Unrecognized	or
       invalid	parameters  result  in	an exit status of 3.  Failure to retrieve network interface information or send a packet will result in an
       exit status of 1.

SEE ALSO

       arp(8).

SECURITY

       On some non-Linux systems dropping root capability allows the process to be dumped, traced or debugged.	If someone  traces  this  program,
       they get control of a raw socket.  Linux handles this safely, but beware when porting this program.

AUTHOR

       The ether-wake program was written by Donald Becker at Scyld Computing Corporation for use with the Scyld(tm) Beowulf System.

Scyld								  March 31, 2003						     ETHER-WAKE(8)