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WAKE(8) 		     System Manager's Manual			 WAKE(8)

NAME
     wake -- send Wake on LAN frames to hosts on a local Ethernet network

SYNOPSIS
     wake [interface] lladdr [lladdr ...]

DESCRIPTION
     The wake program is used to send Wake on LAN (WoL) frames over a local Eth-
     ernet  network  to  one or more hosts using their link layer (hardware) ad-
     dresses.  WoL functionality is generally enabled in a  machine's  BIOS  and
     can be used to power on machines from a remote system without having physi-
     cal access to them.

     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 interface argument can be  omit-
     ted.   lladdr is the link layer address of the remote machine.  This can be
     specified as the actual hardware address (six hexadecimal numbers separated
     by colons) or as a hostname entry in /etc/ethers.	 wake  accepts	multiple
     lladdr addresses.	Link layer addresses can be determined and set using if-
     config(8).

FILES
     /etc/ethers  Ethernet host name data base.

SEE ALSO
     ethers(5), ifconfig(8)

AUTHORS
     wake was written by Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>.

FreeBSD ports 15.1		December 27, 2009			 WAKE(8)

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