ETHER-WAKE
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: March 31, 2003
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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 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 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 ether-wake program was written by Donald Becker at Scyld Computing
Corporation for use with the Scyld() Beowulf System.