wake-on-lan

How to Enable Wake on LAN programmatically

Is there a way to programmatically reach into the BIOS and turn on the Wake on LAN capability for those machines that support it? Ideally, the solution would be cross-BIOS, but hitting each of the major vendors with separate solutions would be okay, too. ...

Wake on LAN using C#

What's the best way going forward to implement Wake on LAN using C#? The functionality is needed for machines in a LAN environment (and not over the internet). The method needs to be robust enough to take care of firewalls and other such issues. Also, for systems not supporting this functionality, or having it disabled, is there an alte...

How do I get a MAC address for a remote system when I only know it's IP address?

I'm working on a Wake on LAN service that will run from a web site and should interact with many different platforms - therefore, no Windows-only solutions. When a user registers their system with the web site, I need to get the MAC address to use in constructing the "magic" packet. I have a Java Applet that is able to do this for me a...

How to find the MAC address of a 'shutdown' system on local lan (is it possible?)

hello everyone, Can anyone please tell the way to find out the mac address of a system which is: Shutdown Power plugged in Connected to Lan Nic card ON. Kindly post the solution as i urgently need it in my project... thank you Update I am asking how to find out the mac address of some other system which is already shutdown.... an...

Shutdown and WakeUp Script C#

Hiya I am very new to C#, infact this is basically my first task set by work whilst i learn the language. Yes i am also new to programming, be gentle :). Context: My script needs to query active directory, grab of OU's and put them to a combo box in a form. Next query ActDir for a list of machines in a selected OU (Done this in a vbscri...

How to wake a PC with a PHP script?

By enabling Wake-on-LAN on my PC, I can remotely power it on. Suppose I want to send the "magic packet" from a PHP script. How would I do this? Would I need to use the cURL functions? ...

How to enable suspend mode on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box?

I want to use Wake-On-LAN for my two office machines, both of which run Windows 2008 Server R2 (for Hyper-V), but it seems the Server SKU doesn't offer a suspend option anyway. I'm sure it's just a registry key or something. How can I enable my servers to sleep? ...

Detect WOL possibility

I'd like to detect if Wake On Lan is possible. On my router (Tomato firmware) there is a table with info - when displays device "Active (In ARP)" - it's possible to turn this device by WOL (offline linux pc). I wonder if it is achieved by router only function or I can do this in C# or C? Function SendArp can detect MAC adress and do ...

Wake On Lan doesn't work after some time, how do I solve this?

Hello there, Last week I installed Ubuntu and tried to get it to boot with Wake On Lan. I rerouted all incoming packets at port 9 to the server. When it's the magic packet the server will boot. All went well until I tried it the next day from a different location. It wouldn't work. So I started googling and did some tests and found out...