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Looking for something not too tricky that's a sample of how
to do this on Solaris.  I'd like to eventually port or
recreate etherwake to run on Solaris, to be able to send
Wake-on-LAN packets to (presumably non-Solaris) systems.

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Quote:> Looking for something not too tricky that's a sample of how
> to do this on Solaris.  I'd like to eventually port or
> recreate etherwake to run on Solaris, to be able to send
> Wake-on-LAN packets to (presumably non-Solaris) systems.

To do something like this you'll probably need to use DLPI.
DLPI is standard accross most Unix, with a few variations accross each
unfortunately and somes (Unixware) allow only one DLPI  provider only (the
IP stack).
Hopefully Solaris was one of the easier implementation of DLPI to work
with.
Under Solaris you need to open the device directly to use DLPI (/dev/eri,
/dev/bge0, ...)
You can find the complete list of interfaces with the SIOCGIFCONF ioctl().
If you need more help, just ask on this newsgroup (or find my e-mail).

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Quote:>Looking for something not too tricky that's a sample of how
>to do this on Solaris.  I'd like to eventually port or
>recreate etherwake to run on Solaris, to be able to send
>Wake-on-LAN packets to (presumably non-Solaris) systems.

There's no need to send raw ethernet frames in order to
implement Wake-ON-Lan.  The magic packet can be a standard
UDP packet (link-level broadcast) with the appropriate
content.

Casper
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Quote:>Looking for something not too tricky that's a sample of how
>to do this on Solaris.  I'd like to eventually port or
>recreate etherwake to run on Solaris, to be able to send
>Wake-on-LAN packets to (presumably non-Solaris) systems.

if you really want to assemble your frames by hand, look at nemesis

best regards
hans

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Works great, thanks.

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