wschlich@gentoo.org
Wolfram Schlich
Primary maintainer
hwoarang@gentoo.org
Markos Chandras
wol implements Wake On LAN functionality in a small program. It wakes up hardware that is Magic Packet compliant.
Consider you have a sleeping or turned-off computer and you want to remotely wake him up. Just type
"wol MAC-ADDRESS" and the host wakes up (OK, it will boot ;-).