How to wake up a computer remotly

Roger Oberholtzer roger
Thu Nov 10 05:07:23 PST 2005


On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 05:17 +0000, Jean Sagi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It is possible to turn on a computer remotly?

Wake up via LAN. There is even a command for Linux: ether-wake

It is usually a setting in the BIOS to enable this. The command taked
the MAC address of the machine to wake up.

> 
> I mean I'm on coputer A, and want to turn on a computer B (which is 
> turned off of course), do some work on it (VNC, telnet, etc...) and then 
> turning it off.
> 
> Both computer are on a LAN.
> 
> Any hint would be very appreciated.
> 
> 
> J.
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Roger Oberholtzer
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