Rust

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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let socket = chilkat::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.
if socket.send_wake_on_lan("000102030405", 9, "255.255.255.255").is_err() {
    println!("{}", socket.last_error_text());
    return;
}

println!("Wake-on-LAN packet sent.");