wol Command Examples

Client for sending Wake-on-LAN magic packets. More information: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wake-on-lan/.

• Send a WoL packet to a device:

wol {{mac_address}}

• Send a WoL packet to a device in another subnet based on its IP:

wol --ipaddr={{ip_address}} {{mac_address}}

• Send a WoL packet to a device in another subnet based on its hostname:

wol --host={{hostname}} {{mac_address}}

• Send a WoL packet to a specific port on a host:

wol --port={{port_number}} {{mac_address}}

• Read hardware addresses, IP addresses/hostnames, optional ports and SecureON passwords from a file:

wol --file={{path/to/file}}

• Turn on verbose output:

wol --verbose {{mac_address}}