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My pet Python script, which I've used and re-used for ages:
# Wake-On-LAN # # Copyright (C) 2002 by Micro Systems Marc Balmer # Written by Marc Balmer, [email protected], http://www.msys.ch/ # This code is free software under the GPL import struct, socket def WakeOnLan(ethernet_address): # Construct a six-byte hardware address addr_byte = ethernet_address.split(':') hw_addr = struct.pack('BBBBBB', int(addr_byte[0], 16), int(addr_byte[1], 16), int(addr_byte[2], 16), int(addr_byte[3], 16), int(addr_byte[4], 16), int(addr_byte[5], 16)) # Build the Wake-On-LAN "Magic Packet"... msg = '\xff' * 6 + hw_addr * 16 # ...and send it to the broadcast address using UDP s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1) s.sendto(msg, ('<broadcast>', 9)) s.close() # Example use WakeOnLan('de:ad:be:ef:12:34')