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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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Dim success As Boolean = False

Dim socket As ChilkatSocket
socket.Initialize("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.
success = socket.SendWakeOnLan("000102030405", 9, "255.255.255.255")
If success = False Then
    Log(socket.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Log("Wake-on-LAN packet sent.")