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.

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