wake_on_lan

Wake-on-LAN utilities for node.js

Installation

npm install wake_on_lan --save  # use the library
npm install wake_on_lan -g      # optional global wake utility 

Synopsis

To wake a machine with a given mac address do:

var wol = require('wake_on_lan');

wol.wake('20:DE:20:DE:20:DE');

wol.wake('20:DE:20:DE:20:DE', function(error) {
  if (error) {
    // handle error
  } else {
    // done sending packets
  }
});

var magic_packet = wol.createMagicPacket('20:DE:20:DE:20:DE');

See windows notes and the wake utility.

Reference

MAC addresses are strings and may use any separator or no separator at all:

'20:DE:20:DE:20:DE'
'20-DE-20-DE-20-DE'
'20DE20DE20DE'

Function wake()

wake(mac, [options, callback])

Send a sequence of Wake-on-LAN magic packets to the given MAC address. The callback is called when all packets have been sent or an error occurs. The options object may have the following properties:

Property	Description	Type	Default
address	The destination address	String	255.255.255.255
num_packets	The number of packets to send	Number	3
interval	The interval between packets in milliseconds	Number	100
port	The destination port to send to	Number	9

Function createMagicPacket()

createMagicPacket(mac)

Returns a buffer with a magic packet for the given MAC address.

The wake utility

wake [options] MAC

Options

Option	Short	Description	Default
--address	-a	Broadcast address, ipv4 or ipv6	255.255.255.255
--num_packets	-n	Number of packets to send	3
--interval	-i	Interval between each packet	100
--port	-p	UDP port of the target destination	9
--help	-h	Show help

Examples

wake 20:DE:20:DE:20:DE
wake -a 192.168.1.255 20-DE-20-DE-20-DE
wake --num_packets 10 --interval 50 -p 9 20DE20DE20DE

Windows Notes

Because windows routes global broadcasts differently from unix systems, it is necessary to specify a broadcast address manually, e.g:

wol.wake(someMac, { address: "192.168.2.255" }, wakeCallback);

Use os.networkInterfaces() to calculate the broadcast address dynamically. See @mwittig's comment for further information.

Contributors

• Jann Horn @thejh
• mh-cbon @mh-cbon

License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2010 David Siegel

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