ETHER-WAKE(8)

NAME
ether-wake - A tool to send magic WOL packages

SYNOPSIS
ether-wake [options] MAC-Address

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the ether-wake commands.

ether-wake is a program that generates and transmits Wake-On-LAN (WOL) "Magic Packet", used for restarting machines that have been soft-powered-down (ACPI D3-warm state). It currently generates the standard AMD Magic Packet format, with an optional password appended.

OPTIONS
ether-wake needs a single dash (´-´) in front of the option. A summary of options is included below.

-b  Send wake-up packet to the broadcast address.

-D  Increase the Debug Level.

-i ifname
    Use interface ifname instead of the default "eth0".

-p passwd
    Append a four or six byte password to the packet. Only very few adapters need or support this. The password may be also specified in ethernet hex format (00:22:44:66:88:aa) or dotted decimal (192.168.1.1).

SEE ALSO
arp(8).

KNOWN BUGS
On some systems dropping root capability allows the process to be dumped, traced or debugged. If someone traces this program, they get control of a raw socket. Linux handles this safely, but beware when porting this program.

AUTHOR
The ether-wake program was written by Donald Becker at Scyld Computing Corporation. This manual page was formatted by Alain Schroeder <alain@mini.gt.owl.de> from the on-line manual in the program.