NAME
wake —
send Wake on LAN frames to hosts on a
local Ethernet network
SYNOPSIS
wake |
[interface] lladdr [lladdr ...] |
DESCRIPTION
Thewake 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 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
AUTHORS
wake was written by Marc
Balmer
<marc@msys.ch>.