ether-wake - phpMan

ETHER-WAKE(8)                                                    ETHER-WAKE(8)



NAME
       ether-wake - A tool to send a Wake-On-LAN "Magic Packet"

SYNOPSIS
       ether-wake [options] Host-ID

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents the usage of the ether-wake command.

       ether-wake  is  a  program  that 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 generates the standard AMD Magic Packet format, optionally with
       a password included.  The single required parameter is a station (MAC) address or a
       host  ID that can be translated to a MAC address by an ethers(5) database specified
       in nsswitch.conf(5)

OPTIONS
       ether-wake needs a single dash (´-´) in front of options.  A summary of options  is
       included below.

       -b     Send the wake-up packet to the broadcast address.

       -D     Increase the Debug Level.

       -i ifname
              Use interface ifname instead of the default "eth0".

       -p passwd
              Append  a  four or six byte password to the packet. Only a few adapters need
              or support this. A six byte password may be specified in Ethernet hex format
              (00:22:44:66:88:aa)  or  four  byte  dotted decimal (192.168.1.1) format.  A
              four byte password must use the dotted decimal format.


       -V     Show the program version information.


EXIT STATUS
       This program returns 0 on success.  A permission failures (e.g. run as  a  non-root
       user) results in an exit status of 2.  Unrecognized or invalid parameters result in
       an exit status of 3.  Failure to retrieve network interface information or  send  a
       packet will result in an exit status of 1.


SEE ALSO
       arp(8).

SECURITY
       On some non-Linux systems dropping root capability allows the process to be dumped,
       traced or debugged.  If someone traces this program, they  get  control  of  a  raw
       socket.  Linux handles this safely, but beware when porting this program.

AUTHOR
       The  etherwake  program was written by Donald Becker at Scyld Computing Corporation
       for use with the Scyld(™) Beowulf System.



Scyld                           March 31, 2003                   ETHER-WAKE(8)

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