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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  nss‐
       witch.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 sending a	 wake  packet  to  all
	      interfaces.

       -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 speci‐
	      fied  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 ether-wake 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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