Bug#286838: ITP: wakeonlan -- Sends 'magic packets' to wake-on-LAN enabled ethernet adapters
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:22:53PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:43:24PM +0000, Steve Kemp wrote:
> > With this package you can remotely wake up and power on machines
> > which have motherboards or network cards which support 'Wake-on-Lan'
> > packets.
>
> i haven't tried any of those tools, so i'm probably wrong, but isn't
> etherwake doing the same thing?
Yes, although that requires root privileges to run. That's
the big attraction of this package.
Steve
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