[TriLUG] command line tools for Wake on LAN

[Steve Kuekes]

I have used the source on the following link and it wakes up all the 
machines that I've tried.  Its just a simple C program.

http://www.scyld.com/wakeonlan.html


David McDowell wrote:
> I have done a little searching and ended up here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
> which does list a few options for software on Linux, OS X and even Win.
> 
> Some other folks from the #centos channel provided this just today
> when I asked about it:
> ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/ORC/wakelan/  SRPM here
> http://search.cpan.org/~clintdw/Net-Wake-0.02/lib/Net/Wake.pm  PERL module here
> 
> I thought I'd approach the list to see what variety of options folks
> have for Wake on LAN tools and opinions about them for Linux systems. 
> My purpose?  I just need to send a simple WoL "magic packet" to a mac
> mini from the Linux box I ssh to at home.
> 
> thanks!
> David McD

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