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p5-Net-Wake-0.02p2

perl5 module for Wake On LAN

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Description

This package sends wake-on-lan (AKA magic) packets to turn on machines that are wake-on-lan capable. For now there is only one function in this package: Net::Wake::by_udp([$host], $mac_address, [$port]); You can omit the colons in the $mac_address, but not leading zeros. Generally speaking, you should use a broadcast address for $host. Using the host's last known IP address is usually not sufficient since the IP address may no longer be in the ARP cache. A $host value of '255.255.255.255' is implied if $host is undef. If you wish to send a magic packet to a remote subnet, you can use a variation of '192.168.0.255', given that you know the subnet mask to generate the proper broadcast address.

Package information

Ports path
net/p5-Net-Wake
Package architecture
*
Maintainer
Okan Demirmen <okan@openbsd.org>
Categories
net, perl5
Available flavors
None listed

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