NAME
etherwake - A little tools to send magic WOL packages
SYNOPSIS
etherwake [options] MAC-Address
DESCRIPTION
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.
- -u
-
A short help
- -h
-
A longer help. Like this manpage.
- -b
-
Send wake-up packet to the broadcast address.
- -D
-
Increase the Debug Level.
- -i ifname
-
Use interface ifname instead of the default "eth0".
- -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).
SEE ALSO
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.
AUTHOR
ether-wake was written by Donald Becker <[email protected]>. This manual page was written by Alain Schroeder <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Most of this documentation was extracted of Donald's well documented source.