1.\" 2.\" $FreeBSD$ 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> 5.\" 6.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 7.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 8.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 9.\" 10.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 11.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 12.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 13.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 14.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 15.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 16.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 17.\" 18.Dd December 27, 2009 19.Dt WAKE 8 20.Os 21.Sh NAME 22.Nm wake 23.Nd send Wake on LAN frames to hosts on a local Ethernet network 24.Sh SYNOPSIS 25.Nm 26.Ar interface 27.Ar lladdr 28.Op Ar lladdr ... 29.Sh DESCRIPTION 30The 31.Nm 32program is used to send Wake on LAN (WoL) frames over a local 33Ethernet network to one or more hosts using their link layer (hardware) 34addresses. 35WoL functionality is generally enabled in a machine's BIOS 36and can be used to power on machines from a remote system without 37having physical access to them. 38.Pp 39.Ar interface 40is a network interface of the local machine. 41.Ar lladdr 42are the link layer addresses of the remote machines 43and can be specified as the actual hardware address 44(six hexadecimal numbers separated by colons) 45or a hostname entry in 46.Pa /etc/ethers . 47Link layer addresses can be determined and set on 48.Fx 49machines using 50.Xr ifconfig 8 . 51.Sh FILES 52.Bl -tag -width "/etc/ethers" -compact 53.It /etc/ethers 54Ethernet host name database. 55.El 56.Sh SEE ALSO 57.Xr ethers 5 , 58.Xr ifconfig 8 59.Sh AUTHORS 60.Nm 61was written by 62.Ar Marc Balmer Aq marc@msys.ch . 63