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As I mentioned above, you need to send a special packet in your LAN network, so that the remote computer will receive it and wake up. I did not do a search but José Pedro Oliveira (second link above) says that there is more documentation about the protocol in their web site. I'm not sure, but it seems that the name comes from AMD. And finally, you should enable Wake-On-LAN in your systems BIOS (or whatever called). After these, your power supply and OS must support WOL. If you have a built-in NIC with WOL support, it's almost done! But many PCI NICs come with a connector and a wire, which has to be connected to the motherboard's WOL connector. So the mechanism relies on the Hardware's ability, and that's why we need some ingredients! Hardware requirementsīoth motherboard and NIC must support WOL. This packet must contain a certain byte-sequence, but can be encapsulated in any kind of packet (IPX, IP, anything). Whenever the card receives information, a magic packet tries to switch on the computer. While your computer is Turned Off, The Network Interface Card remains on and looks forward to hearing a message! More accurately, a packet does, which is called a magic packet. Sentences written in italic copied directly from other articles.Thanks a lot to Khalid Shaikh and his nice article on: Three ways to get your MAC address Thanks a lot to José Pedro Oliveira and his nice article on: Wake On lan - Mini HOWTO.

Wakeonlan cli tool code#

English is not my native language, so sometimes it might be easier to understand the code itself rather than my descriptions.

This is my first article and I hope it will be helpful. That was why after discovering the mechanism I decided to Dis-cover it to others.

I searched the whole web (well, CodeProject) and was unable to find anything about WOL in C++.

WakeOnLan (or for short just WOL) is a mechanism with which a network Interface Card (NIC) could turn a machine on by receiving a special packet through the LAN. The problem is to find a way to turn on other machines in a local area network, from our machine which might or might not be the Server. You'll need a background of computers, Networks, Socket Programming, VC++(MFC) before reading this article.

Wakeonlan cli tool download#

Download Project source (Remote MAC Finder)- 33.0 Kb.Download demo project (MAC Finder)- 36.0 Kb.Download demo project (PowerOn)- 44.0 Kb.Download Executables Only (Both)- 305 Kb.