NAME
wakeonlan —
send Wake on LAN frames to
hosts on a local Ethernet network
SYNOPSIS
wakeonlan |
[interface]
lladdr [lladdr
...] |
DESCRIPTION
The
wakeonlan 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 a hardware address or as a hostname entry in
/etc/ethers.
wakeonlan 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
wakeonlan was written by
Marc Balmer
⟨marc@msys.ch⟩.