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Visual Basic 6.0

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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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim socket As New ChilkatSocket

'  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 = 0) Then
    Debug.Print socket.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print "Wake-on-LAN packet sent."