Mac/PC: sending Wake-on-LAN (WOL) packets
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/25
I’ve succesfully woken up these machines:
- HP XW6600 running ESXi 5.1
- ThinkPad W701U running Windows 7
I still need to try to wake up a Mac Mini Server running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
MacBook Air on 10.7 (Lion) and Retina on 10.8 (Mountain Lion) won’t work as they are WiFi only, and WOL does not work over WiFi.
On 10.7 and up it might not work on a Mac Mini Server either, as Apple Introduced Dark Wake.
I used these tools to send WOL packets:
- From a Mac: WakeOnLan (have not tried the suggestions by Doug Harris yet)
- From Windows: WakeMeOnLan – Turn on computers on your network with Wake-on-LAN packet and Depicus Windows Graphical User Interface (GUI).
- From SuSE Linux: still need to try EtherWake (it works on other *nix: HowTo: Wake Up Computers Using Linux Command [ Wake-on-LAN ( WOL ) ].).
- From ASUS RT-N66U: need to install the Merlin firmware to check this out.
–jeroen
via: Wake-on-LAN – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
Leave a Reply