Best WOL (Wake On Lan) tool?

[ZarathustraDK]

Hey. I was wondering if you guys have any recommendations in regards to WOL-software.

I'm looking for some kind setup where I can assign entire IP-ranges to be woken up, give them a designation and save them for later use. Any ideas?

[TheFu]

I use a perl script - wake.pl.
It can read all the machines to be sent WoL commands from a file.
Don't recall where I found the script - google found this: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SR/SRAMKI/wol.pl at CPAN - THE place for perl stuff. I haven't used that script myself. This version is missing the all important - get-inputs-from-a-file.

Next google result ... ah ... http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot/archive/msg02524.html is the one I've been using.

[mamamia88]

Hey. I was wondering if you guys have any recommendations in regards to WOL-software.

I'm looking for some kind setup where I can assign entire IP-ranges to be woken up, give them a designation and save them for later use. Any ideas?

you could switch your router to dd-wrt firmware then just put a checkmark next to whatever computer hostname you want to enable wake on lan for and then wake them up from the web interface.

[CharlesA]

Eh, I use a shell script based off of wakeonlan for that.

[cariboo]

I used the howto here, then use gwakeonlan to start the sleeping systems.

[Pinoy Tux]

Eh, I use a shell script based off of wakeonlan for that.

Ditto.

wakeonlan -f /path/to/list/of/mac-addresses