Ether-Wake

Ether-Wake (etherwake) is a Wake-on-Lan client.

Version: 1.09-0

Status: Done

Description

This program generates and transmits a Wake-On-LAN (WOL) "Magic Packet", used for restarting machines that have been soft-powered-down (ACPI D3-warm state). It currently generates the standard AMD Magic Packet format, with an optional password appended.

Usage

etherwake [-i <ifname>] [-p aa:bb:cc:dd[:ee:ff]] 00:11:22:33:44:55
Options:
-b      wake-up packet to the broadcast address.
-D      Increase the debug level.
-i ifname
Use interface IFNAME instead of the default 'eth0'.
-p <pw> Append the four or six byte password PW to the packet.  
A password is only required for a few adapter types.
The password may be specified in ethernet hex format
or dotted decimal (Internet address)
-p 00:22:44:66:88:aa
-p 192.168.1.1

Download

If you do not have ipkg already installed, put the .bin format ether-wake (above) into your /usr/bin directory .

License

Copyright 1999-2003 Donald Becker and Scyld Computing Corporation.
This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
of the GNU Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
Contact the author for use under other terms.
This source file was originally part of the network tricks package, and
is now distributed to support the Scyld Beowulf system.

Todo

History

Version 1.09-0 - [John, 2008-04-16]

• Ported to MG-35
• Disabled name lookups into /etc/ethers for MG-35 (left alone on X86)