plan9fox/sys/man/8/wol
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.TH WOL 8
.SH NAME
wol \- send wake-on-lan Ethernet packet
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ip/wol
[
.B -v
] [
.B -a
.I dialstr
] [
.B -c
.I password
]
.I macaddr
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Wol
sends a magic wake-on-lan Ethernet packet to
.IR dialstr
(default
.BR udp!255.255.255.255!0 ,
the IPv4 broadcast address),
intended to wake up the machine with an Ethernet interface with the MAC
address
.IR macaddr .
.I Macaddr
is not used to route the packet, but is inserted into the magic packet
as required by the wake-on-lan protocol.
.PP
An optional
.I password
of at most six bytes can be sent.
The option
.B -v
prints verbose information about the packet sent.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR dial (2),
.I parseether
in
.IR ip (2)
.br
.B http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN