Introduction

Concept is being able to wake your computer remotely.

Not sure if wakeonlan is the best utility, but the name is easy to remember and it works for me.

Integration

This should be flushed out and moved into a separate article. Here are my quick notes.

With normal wired links the key is to get the network card mac address. The mac address is unique to your network card.

With wireless it's more complicated and dependent on your network card and hardware settings.

With my iMac it is supported, but I need to also have a Mac router:

Kitchen-iMac:~ tin.pham$ ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
	options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
	nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	options=10b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,AV>
	ether 0c:4d:e9:a1:20:92 
	nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
	media: autoselect (none)
	status: inactive
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether 88:63:df:90:06:6d 
	inet6 fe80::8a63:dfff:fe90:66d%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 
	inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
	nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
	media: autoselect
	status: active
en2: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	options=60<TSO4,TSO6>
	ether 32:00:15:cf:c0:00 
	media: autoselect <full-duplex>
	status: inactive
en3: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	options=60<TSO4,TSO6>
	ether 32:00:15:cf:c0:01 
	media: autoselect <full-duplex>
	status: inactive
bridge0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	options=63<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TSO4,TSO6>
	ether 0e:4d:e9:1a:90:00 
	Configuration:
		id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 hellotime 0 fwddelay 0
		maxage 0 holdcnt 0 proto stp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
		root id 0:0:0:0:0:0 priority 0 ifcost 0 port 0
		ipfilter disabled flags 0x2
	member: en2 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
	        ifmaxaddr 0 port 6 priority 0 path cost 0
	member: en3 flags=3<LEARNING,DISCOVER>
	        ifmaxaddr 0 port 7 priority 0 path cost 0
	nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
	media: <unknown type>
	status: inactive
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
	ether 0a:63:df:90:06:6d 
	media: autoselect
	status: inactive
awdl0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1452
	ether ca:b1:af:a7:9c:f5 
	inet6 fe80::c8b1:afff:fea7:9cf5%awdl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa 
	nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
	media: autoselect
	status: active
vmnet1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01 
	inet 192.168.19.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.19.255
vmnet8: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08 
	inet 192.168.73.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.73.255

Example

Example of use,

sudo apt-get install wakeonlan # install
wakeonlan 88:63:DF:90:06:6D # wake my mac using my pre-recorded mac address
ping 192.168.0.100 # confirm it is up