Wake-on-LAN utilities for node.js

Installation

npm install wake_on_lan

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');

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'

Functions

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:

address: the destination address (default: 255.255.255.255)

num_packets: number of packets to send (default: 3)

interval: the interval between packets (default: 100ms)

port: the port to send to (default: 9)

createMagicPacket(mac)

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

Contributors

• Jann Horn (@thejh)

License (MIT)

Copyright © 2010 David Siegel

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