package wol

ocaml-wake-on-lan

OCaml libraries for sending Wake-on-LAN magic packets.

• wol — pure library for constructing magic packets from MAC addresses
• wol-eio — Eio-based UDP sending, plus the owol CLI tool
• wol-mirage — MirageOS network stack support

Installation

opam install wol-eio

CLI usage

owol AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF

Options:

• -p, --port — UDP port (default: 9)
• -a, --address — destination IP (default: 255.255.255.255)
• -b, --broadcast — set SO_BROADCAST socket option (default: true)

Library usage

(* Construct a magic packet *)
let packet = Wol.magic_packet (Macaddr.of_string_exn "AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF")

(* Send via Eio *)
Wol_eio.send ~net mac

References

• AMD Magic Packet Technology (PDF)