wol implements Wake On LAN functionality in a small program. wol wakes up hardware that is Magic Packet compliant.
Consider you have a sleeping or turned-off computer and you want to remotely wake him up. Just type wol MAC-ADDRESS and the host wakes up.
Here are some key features of "wol":
Wakes up various NIC's (tested)
· 3COM 3C905c
· Compaq NC3161
· D-Link DFE530TX+ and DFE550TX
· Intel EtherExpress Pro 100
· LevelOne FNC-0107TX
· Linksys Etherfast LNE100TX
· Realtek LFE8139
Wake up from file (same as /etc/ethers and an enhanced format)
Sleeping between two magic packets (measured in milliseconds)
SecureON password support
i18n support with following languages: en, de, es, it, fr, sv
Portable
· FreeBSD
· HP/UX
· Irix
· Linux
· MacOS X
· NetBSD
· OpenBSD
· Solaris
· Tru64 UNIX
· Win32 (via cygwin)
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· fix --disable-gettext bug
· fix documentation
· fix prerequisite-headers bug
· add swedish translation
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