PureBasic

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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IncludeFile "CkSocket.pb"

Procedure ChilkatExample()

    success.i = 0

    socket.i = CkSocket::ckCreate()
    If socket.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    ;  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 = CkSocket::ckSendWakeOnLan(socket,"000102030405",9,"255.255.255.255")
    If success = 0
        Debug CkSocket::ckLastErrorText(socket)
        CkSocket::ckDispose(socket)
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    Debug "Wake-on-LAN packet sent."


    CkSocket::ckDispose(socket)


    ProcedureReturn
EndProcedure