wol 2.0.3 review

wol implements Wake On LAN functionality in a small program

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Thomas Krennwallner

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wol implements Wake On LAN functionality in a small program. It wakes up hardware that is Magic Packet compliant.

Consider you have a sleeping or turned-off computer and you want to remotely wake him up. Just type wol MAC-ADDRESS and the host wakes up.

Here are some key features of "wol":

Wakes up various NIC's (tested)
3COM 3C905c
Compaq NC3161
D-Link DFE530TX+ and DFE550TX
Intel EtherExpress Pro 100
LevelOne FNC-0107TX
Linksys Etherfast LNE100TX
Realtek LFE8139

Wake up from file (same as /etc/ethers and an enhanced format)

Sleeping between two magic packets (measured in milliseconds)

SecureON password support

i18n support with following languages: en, de, es, it, fr, sv

Portable
FreeBSD
HP/UX
Irix
Linux
MacOS X
NetBSD
OpenBSD
Solaris
Tru64 UNIX
Win32 (via cygwin)

What's New in This Release:
fix --disable-gettext bug
fix documentation
fix prerequisite-headers bug
add swedish translation