Ruby

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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require 'chilkat'

success = false

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 == false)
    print socket.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

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