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