Perl

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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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $socket = Chilkat2::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.
my $success = $socket->SendWakeOnLan('000102030405', 9, '255.255.255.255');
if (!$success) {
    print $socket->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print "Wake-on-LAN packet sent.\n";