On 15 October 2007 14:50, Richard Ivarson wrote: > Hi, > > is there a Cygwin command/program to send a "magic packet" for "Wake on LAN" > (in short: WoL), or is it be possible to use a few script lines in one of > the programs or interpreters supported by Cygwin (like GAWK, ...) ? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN > > Thanks. > > -ric
Yep, just take a look at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN ;-) I didn't run an actual packet sniffer nor try against any real WoL hardware, but the python and perl scripts linked there both ran trivially OOTB and kicked up an alert from my firewall, so it looked like they were probably successfully sending the packet. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
