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Send a Wake-on-LAN Packet with a SecureOn Password

Demonstrates Socket.SendWakeOnLan2, which sends a Wake-on-LAN magic packet that includes a SecureOn password.

Background. The password is a hexadecimal string representing four or six bytes and should come from a secure source. This is otherwise the same as SendWakeOnLan.

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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 that includes a SecureOn password.  The password is a hexadecimal
#  string representing four or six bytes, and should come from a secure source rather than being
#  hard-coded.
$secureOnPassword = "AABBCCDDEEFF"
$success = $socket.SendWakeOnLan2("000102030405",9,"255.255.255.255",$secureOnPassword)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($socket.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

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