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WAKE(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual WAKE(8) NAME wake -- send Wake on LAN frames to hosts on a local Ethernet network SYNOPSIS wake interface [lladdr ...] DESCRIPTION The wake program is used to send Wake on LAN (WoL) frames over a local Ethernet network to one or more hosts using their link layer (hardware) addresses. WoL functionality is generally enabled in a machine's BIOS and can be used to power on machines from a remote system without having physical access to them. interface is the network interface of the local machine. lladdr are the link layer addresses of the remote machines and can be specified as the actual hardware address (six hexadecimal numbers separated by colons) or a hostname entry in /etc/ethers. Link layer addresses can be determined and set on FreeBSD machines using ifconfig(8). FILES /etc/ethers Ethernet host name database. SEE ALSO ethers(5), ifconfig(8) AUTHORS wake was written by Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>. FreeBSD 11.1 June 27 2009 FreeBSD 11.1
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