Wake On LAN (WOL) – PowerShell style

re: Wake On LAN (WOL) – PowerShell style

Dave — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:31:31 GMT

The line:

$UDPclient.Connect(([System.Net.IPAddress]::Broadcast),4000)

should be:

$UDPclient.Connect(([System.Net.IPAddress]::Broadcast),9)

UDP port 9 is the discard port, allowing the UDP stack to disregard the packet rather than forwarding it to any service running on port 4000.

re: Wake On LAN (WOL) – PowerShell style

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:04:54 GMT

Using the genius blog you referenced as a starting point, I tweaked your $Mac = statement to be able to parse the 3 most common MAC formats...

$args[0] -match "^(..)-(..)-(..)-(..)-(..)-(..)$|^(..):(..):(..):(..):(..):(..)$|^(..)(..)(..)(..)(..)(..)$" | Out-Null

Switch ($matches.Keys) {

{$_ -contains 1}{$mac = [byte[]]($matches[1..6] | % {[int]"0x$_"})}

{$_ -contains 7}{$mac = [byte[]]($matches[7..12] | % {[int]"0x$_"})}

{$_ -contains 13}{$mac = [byte[]]($matches[13..18] | % {[int]"0x$_"})}

}

re: Wake On LAN (WOL) – PowerShell style

Alex — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:21:33 GMT

One more way to remotely wake up a server over Internet is a service "Wake-On-LAN Online" - http://www.wakeonlan.me.

It can be used with any device connected to the Internet and allows simple wake up PC just with a link to the pahe of the site with necessary MAC and IP address.

Furthermore the wake up can be scheduled for certain time and date and the site will wake up the PC automatically in that time.