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Dd May 13, 2018
Dt WAKEONLAN 8
Os
Sh NAME
Nm wakeonlan
Nd send Wake on LAN frames to hosts on a local Ethernet network
Sh SYNOPSIS
Nm
Op Ar interface
Ar lladdr
Op Ar lladdr ...
Sh DESCRIPTION
The
Nm
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.
Pp
Ar 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
Ar interface
argument can be omitted.
Ar lladdr
is the link layer address of the remote machine.
This can be specified as a hardware address
or as a hostname entry in
Pa /etc/ethers .
Nm
accepts multiple
Ar lladdr
addresses.
Link layer addresses can be determined and set using
Xr ifconfig 8 .
Sh FILES
Bl -tag -width "/etc/ethers" -compact
It /etc/ethers
Ethernet host name data base.
El
Sh SEE ALSO
Xr ethers 5 ,
Xr ifconfig 8
Sh HISTORY
The
Nm
utility first appeared in
Nx 6.0 .
Sh AUTHORS
Nm
was written by
An Marc Balmer
Aq [email protected] .