Send a Wake-on-LAN Magic Packet

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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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    success := false

    socket := chilkat.NewSocket()

    //  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 {
        fmt.Println(socket.LastErrorText())
        socket.DisposeSocket()
        return
    }

    fmt.Println("Wake-on-LAN packet sent.")

    socket.DisposeSocket()