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Send a Wake-on-LAN Magic Packet

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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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#include <CkSocketW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkSocketW 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(L"000102030405",9,L"255.255.255.255");
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",socket.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"Wake-on-LAN packet sent.\n");
    }