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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/wake/wake.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/wake/wake.8 | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/wake/wake.8 b/usr.sbin/wake/wake.8 index 159025076b8..78c4abb7d3d 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/wake/wake.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/wake/wake.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: wake.8,v 1.4 2009/01/29 16:52:50 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: wake.8,v 1.5 2009/02/02 21:29:27 mbalmer Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Marc Balmer <mbalmer@openbsd.org> .\" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 29 2009 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 2 2009 $ .Dt WAKE 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -23,12 +23,13 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Ar interface -.Ar lladdr +.Op Ar lladdr ... .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm -program is used to send a Wake on LAN (WoL) frame over a local -Ethernet network to a host using its link layer (hardware) address. +program is used to send Wake on LAN (WoL) frames over a local +Ethernet network to one or more hosts using their link layer (hardware) +addresses. WoL functionality is generally enabled in a machine's BIOS and can be used to power on machines from a remote system without having physical access to them. @@ -36,12 +37,14 @@ having physical access to them. .Ar interface is the network interface of the local machine. .Ar lladdr -is the link layer address of the remote machine +are the link layer addresses of the remote machines and can be specified as the actual hardware address (six hexadecimal numbers separated by colons) or a hostname entry in .Xr ethers 5 . -Link layer addresses can be determined and set using +Link layer addresses can be determined and set on +.Ox +machines using .Xr ifconfig 8 . .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "/etc/ethers" -compact |