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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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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

$socket = New-Object Chilkat.Socket

#  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 -eq $false) {
    $($socket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

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