jpoliv/wakeonlan

Perl script for waking up computers via Wake-On-LAN magic packets

wakeonlan's Issues

permit hostname for mac addr argument, resolved via /etc/ethers

It would be nice if we could specify a hostname in place of the MAC address argument, and for wakeonlan to attempt to look this up via nss/nsswitch/the ethers db (e.g. /etc/ethers).

Note that this would be to resolve a hostname to a MAC address, not to specify an IP for the WOL packet.

Examples

$ getent ethers coil
e0:4f:43:e6:2b:36 coil
$ wakeonlan $(getent ethers coil | awk '{ print $1 }')
Sending magic packet to 255.255.255.255:9 with e0:4f:43:e6:2b:36

getent(1) implies that the libc function to do this correctly is ether_hostton.

Possible to send "turn off" packet?

Hi there,

Thanks for sharing this amazing tool. Is there a supported way to send "turn off" commands to a MAC address using this or any other tool that you know of?

Thank you,
Tony

Q: RPM package installer for RH/Fedora et al

Is there a plan to release an RPM installer and perhaps include it in the mainstream repo's?
Thanks.

Unable to use DNS name for ip_address argument

In 0.42 version of wakeonlan, when trying to input my DNS name as the ip_address argument, it returns :

Invalid default IP address: (name of my DNS address).
With the same parameters on wakeonlan 0.41, it works like a charm instead. What changed? It seems that now ip_address argument only accepts digits.

Doesn't Work on Linux Mint 20

After installation with Software Manager it will not Launch and can not be found in the Application list.

Unable to use public IPv6 for ip_address argument

When I attempt to use my server's public IPv6 ip address as an option for the script, I get the following error:

Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/local/bin/wakeonlan line 75.
Bad arg length for Socket::pack_sockaddr_in, length is 0, should be 4 at /usr/local/bin/wakeonlan line 75.

It looks as though using the IPv6 ip is not supported by the script at this time. Is that a feature that needs to be added, or am I using the script incorrectly?

Note: The script works correctly when using no ip_address argument or my local ip address