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Send a Wake-on-LAN Magic Packet

Demonstrates Socket.SendWakeOnLan, which sends a Wake-on-LAN magic packet for a MAC address to a UDP broadcast address and port.

Background. The MAC address is six bytes written as hexadecimal. Wake-on-LAN wakes a powered-down machine on the local network that has the feature enabled.

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Local $bSuccess = False

$oSocket = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Socket")

;  Send a Wake-on-LAN magic packet to wake a machine by its MAC address.  The MAC is six bytes
;  written as hexadecimal, and the packet is sent to the UDP broadcast address and port.
$bSuccess = $oSocket.SendWakeOnLan("000102030405",9,"255.255.255.255")
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oSocket.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("Wake-on-LAN packet sent." & @CRLF)