ether-wake8
A little tools to send magic wol packages
Usage
etherwake [options]
MAC-Address
Overview
This manual page documents briefly the etherwake commands.
etherwake is a program that generates and transmits Wake-On-LAN (WOL) "Magic Packet", used for restarting machines that have been soft-powered-down (ACPI D3-warm state). It currently generates the standard AMD Magic Packet format, with an optinonal password appended.
Options
etherwake needs a single dash ('-') in front of the option. A summary of options is included below.
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-u -
A short help
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-h -
A longer help. Like this manpage.
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-b -
Send wake-up packet to the broadcast address.
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-D -
Increase the Debug Level.
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-i ifname -
Use interface ifname instead of the default "eth0".
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-p passwd -
Append a four or six byte password to the packet. Only very few adapters need or support this. The password may be also specified in ethernet hex format (00:22:44:66:88:aa) or dotted decimal (192.168.1.1).
Known bugs
On some 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.