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WOL(1)				       wol				  WOL(1)

NAME
     wol - Wake On LAN client

SYNOPSIS
     wol [OPTION] ... MAC-ADDRESS ...

DESCRIPTION
     This manual gives you an introduction into "wol", the Wake On LAN client.
     It remotely turns on computers that supports Magic Packet technology (also
     known as Wake On LAN).

     Some workstations support SecureON password feature. These machines only
     wake up if you provide the correct password. "wol" also provides this fea-
     ture.

OPTIONS
     --help
	 Print a summary of the command line options.

     -V
     --version
	 Print the version number of "wol".

     -h HOST
     --host=HOST
     -i HOST
     --ipaddr=HOST
	 Broadcast packet to this IP address or hostname. This is important if
	 your wol client is a multihomed host and you want to send only to one
	 subnet (default IP address is 255.255.255.255).

     -p NUM
     --port=NUM
	 Send packet with this destination port NUM. This option is important if
	 your packet filter would block the default destination port 40000.

     -f FILE
     --file=FILE
	 Read hardware addresses, IP addresses/hostnames, optional ports and Se-
	 cureON password from file FILE. If FILE is - "wol" reads from stdin.

     -	 Read hardware addresses, IP addresses, optional ports and optional Se-
	 cureON password from stdin. So you can extract MAC-ADDRESSES from any
	 source and pipe the data into "wol" so.

     -v
     --verbose
	 Turns on verbose output.

     -w NUM
     --wait=NUM
	 Waits NUM milliseconds between Magic Packets. Also known as fuse health
	 pack.

     --passwd[=PASS]
	 Send a magic packet with SecureON password feature. PASS is written as
	 x-x-x-x-x-x, where x is a hexadecimal number between 0 and ff which
	 represents one byte of the password.

	 If you don't provide PASS "wol" prompts you for a password.

	 To set the password of your SecureON capable NIC, you can use "ethtool"
	 (<http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/>).

BUGS
     Please report bugs to <krennwallner@aon.at>. Feel free to send bug reports,
     translations, improvement suggestions and patches to this email address.

SEE ALSO
     GNU info entry for wol.

AUTHOR
     Written by Thomas Krennwallner <krennwallner@aon.at>.

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (C) 2001,2002,2003,2004 Thomas Krennwallner <krennwallner@aon.at>

     This document may be distributed and modified under the terms of the GNU
     General Public License.

     This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it un-
     der the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
     Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later ver-
     sion.

     This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without
     any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fit-
     ness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more
     details.

     A copy of the GNU General Public License is available on the World Wide Web
     at the GNU website. You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software
     Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

wol 0.7.1			   2026-08-29				  WOL(1)

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