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Visual Basic 6.0

Send a Wake-on-LAN Packet with a SecureOn Password

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Demonstrates Socket.SendWakeOnLan2, which sends a Wake-on-LAN magic packet that includes a SecureOn password.

Background. The password is a hexadecimal string representing four or six bytes and should come from a secure source. This is otherwise the same as SendWakeOnLan.

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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 that includes a SecureOn password.  The password is a hexadecimal
'  string representing four or six bytes, and should come from a secure source rather than being
'  hard-coded.
Dim secureOnPassword As String
secureOnPassword = "AABBCCDDEEFF"
success = socket.SendWakeOnLan2("000102030405",9,"255.255.255.255",secureOnPassword)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print socket.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

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