Hail Monks,

I was attempting to write a simple perl script to wake a given computer over the lan.

While investigating how to do this, the module Net::Wake caught my eye. I tried to use it, though unfortunately, nothing happened. On the computer that I tried to wake, I made sure wake on lan was enabled, and copied down the correct mac address. Also, i checked the device properties (in Windows 2000 Pro) of my network card and it is set to "Wake on ALL". Here is the code: 

use warnings;
use strict;

use Net::Wake;

Net::Wake::by_udp('XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX','00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE');

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it seemed pretty straight forward, and I would really like it to work. Any advice/help would be great.

Thanks Monks

In reply to wake on lan usage by primus

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