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Wake-On-Lan (Encendido de PC Automático desde la red para equipos que incorporen esta característica)
# Wake-On-LAN
#
# Copyright (C) 2002 by Micro Systems Marc Balmer
# Written by Marc Balmer, marc@msys.ch, http://www.msys.ch/
# This code is free software under the GPL
import struct, socket
def WakeOnLan(ethernet_address):
# Construct a six-byte hardware address
addr_byte = ethernet_address.split(':')
hw_addr = struct.pack('BBBBBB', int(addr_byte[0], 16),
int(addr_byte[1], 16),
int(addr_byte[2], 16),
int(addr_byte[3], 16),
int(addr_byte[4], 16),
int(addr_byte[5], 16))
# Build the Wake-On-LAN "Magic Packet"...
msg = '\xff' * 6 + hw_addr * 16
# ...and send it to the broadcast address using UDP
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1)
s.sendto(msg, ('<broadcast>', 9))
s.close()
# Example use
WakeOnLan('00:11:09:62:ea:97')
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