You need to use wakeonlan Perl script that generates and transmits a Wake-On-LAN (WOL) "Magic Packet", used for restarting machines that have been soft powered-down (ACPI D3-warm state).
Download wakeonlan
Open a terminal and type the following curl command:
$ cd /tmp
$ curl http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/downloads/wakeonlan-0.41.tar.gz -o out.tag.gz
Untar the tar ball with the help of tar command, enter:
$ tar xvf out.tag.gz
Sample outputs:
x wakeonlan-0.41/
x wakeonlan-0.41/README
x wakeonlan-0.41/Makefile.PL
x wakeonlan-0.41/META.yml
x wakeonlan-0.41/SIGNATURE
x wakeonlan-0.41/Changes
x wakeonlan-0.41/MANIFEST
x wakeonlan-0.41/examples/
x wakeonlan-0.41/examples/lab001.wol
x wakeonlan-0.41/wakeonlan
Install Perl script
Type the following mkdir command:
$ mkdir ~/bin/
Copy /tmp/wakeonlan-0.41/wakeonlan to ~/bin/ directory with the cp command:
$ cp /tmp/wakeonlan-0.41/wakeonlan ~/bin/
How do I send WOL on OS X?
The syntax is:
$ ~/bin/wakeonlan server-mac-address-here
For example, if nas01 server has 00:08:9b:c4:30:30 mac address, enter:
$ ~/bin/wakeonlan 00:08:9b:c4:30:30
Sample outputs:
Sending magic packet to 255.255.255.255:9 with 00:08:9b:c4:30:30
Other options
-i ip_address
set the destination IP address
default: 255.255.255.255 (the limited broadcast address)
-p port
set the destination port
default: 9 (the discard port)
-f file
uses file as a source of hardware addresses
Apple computer wake for network access (WOL) setting
If you want other users to be able to access your Apple OS X based computer’s shared resources, such as shared printers/files/folders or iTunes playlists, even when your computer is in sleep mode. Open System Preferences > choose "Energy Saver preferences". This set options that control your computer’s energy use including WOL for all Mac Based server and client systems:
Make sure you select the option "Wake for network access" so that other users can wake up your computer using WOL magic packet.
