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.

import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    boolean success = false;

    CkSocket socket = new CkSocket();

    //  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) {
        System.out.println(socket.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    System.out.println("Wake-on-LAN packet sent.");
  }
}