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ZarathustraDK
September 6th, 2013, 09:19 AM
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
September 6th, 2013, 12:35 PM
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
September 6th, 2013, 09:47 PM
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
September 6th, 2013, 11:19 PM
Eh, I use a shell script based off of wakeonlan for that.

cariboo
September 7th, 2013, 04:26 AM
I used the howto here (http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=How-to:Set_up_Wake-On-Lan_(Ubuntu)), then use gwakeonlan (https://code.google.com/p/gwakeonlan/) to start the sleeping systems.

Pinoy Tux
September 10th, 2013, 06:13 AM
Eh, I use a shell script based off of wakeonlan for that.
Ditto.


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