Lua

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 chilkat = require("chilkat")

local socket = chilkat.Socket.new()

-- 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.
local success = socket:send_wake_on_lan("000102030405", 9, "255.255.255.255")
if not success then
    print(socket.last_error_text)
    return
end

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