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.TH ETHERWAKE 8 "February 24, 2002"
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etherwake \- A little tools to send magic WOL packages
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.RI [ options ] " MAC-Address"
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This manual page documents briefly the
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\fBetherwake\fP is a program that generates and transmits Wake-On-LAN
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(WOL) "Magic Packet", used for restarting machines that have been
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soft-powered-down (ACPI D3-warm state). It currently generates the standard
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AMD Magic Packet format, with an optinonal password appended.
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\fBetherwake\fP needs a single dash ('-') in front of the option.
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A summary of options is included below.
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A longer help. Like this manpage.
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Send wake-up packet to the broadcast address.
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Increase the Debug Level.
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Use interface ifname instead of the default "eth0".
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Append a four or six byte password to the packet. Only very few adapters
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need or support this. The password may be also specified in ethernet hex
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format (00:22:44:66:88:aa) or dotted decimal (192.168.1.1).
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On some systems dropping root capability allows the process to be
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dumped, traced or debugged.
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If someone traces this program, they get control of a raw socket.
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Linux handles this safely, but beware when porting this program.
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ether-wake was written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>.
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This manual page was written by Alain Schroeder <alain@parkautomat.net>,
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for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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Most of this documentation was extracted of Donald's well documented