Visual FoxPro

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 lnSuccess
LOCAL loSocket

lnSuccess = 0

loSocket = CreateObject('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.
lnSuccess = loSocket.SendWakeOnLan("000102030405",9,"255.255.255.255")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loSocket.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loSocket
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "Wake-on-LAN packet sent."

RELEASE loSocket