Perl
Perl
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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use chilkat();
$success = 0;
$socket = chilkat::CkSocket->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.
$success = $socket->SendWakeOnLan("000102030405",9,"255.255.255.255");
if ($success == 0) {
print $socket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
exit;
}
print "Wake-on-LAN packet sent." . "\r\n";