wakelan(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so this is wakelan(1) from the General Commands Manual, and it does exactly one iconic thing: wake up a host with a wake-on-lan packet. no cap, that's the whole gig. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

wakelan [options] [mac] [bcast] [port]

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

WakeLan sends a properly formatted UDP packet across the network, and that packet will cause a wake-on-lan enabled computer to power on. literally waking the computer up from across the network. the main character energy is real. 🔥

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -m mac — the MAC address of the host you want to wake. it should be six bytes long, and colons between the bytes are optional, so you can format it however you like bestie. ✨
• -p bcast — the broadcast address to send the packet to. yes, this one is listed as -p on the page. 🫶
• -p port — the UDP port to send the packet to. yep, the page lists -p for this too — both are mirrored here exactly, no editing, no merging, periodt. 💅

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

run it like this, bestie:

./wakelan 05:5a:ef:97:12:88
./wakelan 325f9aed3015 10.255.255.255
./wakelan 325f9aed3015 lan-bcast

💜 COPYING 💜

Copyright (C) 1998 Christopher Chan-Nui

wakelan is distributed under the GNU public license. see the file COPYING for details. 🎀

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Christopher Chan-Nui <channui+wakelan@freeware.tiny.org>

signing off with wakelan(1), dated 29 August 1998 — mwah, bye bestie 💋💖