

English is not my native language, so sometimes it might be easier to understand the code itself rather than my descriptions.This is my first article and I hope it will be helpful. That was why after discovering the mechanism I decided to Dis-cover it to others. I searched the whole web (well, CodeProject) and was unable to find anything about WOL in C++.WakeOnLan (or for short just WOL) is a mechanism with which a network Interface Card (NIC) could turn a machine on by receiving a special packet through the LAN. The problem is to find a way to turn on other machines in a local area network, from our machine which might or might not be the Server. You'll need a background of computers, Networks, Socket Programming, VC++(MFC) before reading this article. Download Project source (Remote MAC Finder)- 33.0 Kb.Download demo project (MAC Finder)- 36.0 Kb.

Download demo project (PowerOn)- 44.0 Kb.Download Executables Only (Both)- 305 Kb.
