Daniel,
To use 'Wake On LAN', you need a computer motherboard and BIOS that supports
it, A network card that supports it, and a signal wire connected between
them. As I understand it, you send a 'Magic Packet' to the destination
machine repeating the NIC's MAC address several times. This will be like
hitting the power button if all other conditions are met.
I did a search in my favorite search engine on PERL+"Wake on LAN"+"Magic
Packet", and came up with several links, the most promising is below.
http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot/archive/msg02524.html
Hope This helps,
James Krummel
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>From: "Daniel Homerin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Wake on lan
>Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 07:40:19 +0200
>
>Is there a way to start a PC remotely using its 'wake on lan' capability ?
>If not in Perl, can someone give some guidelines for doing it in C/C++ ?
>Thank you.
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