etherwake – A little tool to send magic Wake-on-LAN packets
You can wake up WOL compliant Computers which have been powered down to sleep mode or start WOL compliant Computers with a BIOS feature.
WOL is an abbreviation for Wake-on-LAN. It is a standard that allows you to turn on a computer from another location over a network connection.
etherwake also supports WOL passwords.
Install etherwake
#apt-get install etherwake
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
etherwake
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9466B of archives.
After unpacking 73.7kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 ftp://kambing.ui.edu stable/main etherwake 1.09-1 [9466B]
Fetched 9466B in 0s (25.7kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package etherwake.
(Reading database … 39699 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking etherwake (from …/etherwake_1.09-1_i386.deb) …
Setting up etherwake (1.09-1) …
This will complete the installation.If you want to use etherwake you need to specify the following command
#etherwake <macaddress>
Example :- etherwake 00:11:22:33:44:55
