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Wake my PC remotely


IP address or dns name: (UDP port 9 must not be blocked by your firewall)
MAC address: (12 hex characters)


Detail

Modern PCs may support wake-on-lan (wikipedia link) if you are using an ethernet chipset that supports this. You may have to enable WOL in your BIOS or Network card BIOS. Your PC turns itself on when it receives a special packet. All you need do is specify your public IP address, and your PC hardware MAC address. This can be found by using ipconfig command for windows, or ifconfig for Linux or networksetup for OSX

Windows:
C:\Users\IEUser>ipconfig /all

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : t01.local
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 08-00-27-94-CD-ED
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::cad:9321:168e:83e3%13(Preferred)
   :
   :

Linux:
# ifconfig -a eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 52:54:23:2b:a5:ff
          inet addr:64.0.255.98  Bcast:64.91.255.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::5054:ff:fe2b:a5ff/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
          RX packets:317903070 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:200827477 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:92352903894 (92.3 GB)  TX bytes:345012628813 (345.0 GB)

OSX:
# networksetup -listallhardwareports
  :
  :
Hardware Port: Ethernet
Device: en0
Ethernet Address: 10:dd:b1:af:cb:79
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  :

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